In the first Stapler walkthrough, we managed a very easy path to a shell by enumerating usernames over SMB and brute-forcing a password with Hydra. From there, some quick digging through the home directories revealed a plain-text password to an account with complete sudo privileges. Root was trivial. In this article, we will take a look at a different route to rooting this box through a "hidden" WordPress blog and a kernel exploit.
Stapler – A Second Approach (OSCP Prep)
