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  • Description: You know phpBB ?
  • Difficulty: Easy

🔎 Solution

Upon accessing the challenge's main webpage, nothing appeared on the screen. However, inspecting the page's source code revealed a comment pointing to <!-- /web-serveur/ch6/phpbb -->.

Navigating to that directory displayed the header of the Root Me website, though no significant content was present.

The challenge references phpBB, an open-source forum software written in PHP. It is one of the most widely used free forum platforms globally.

A quick search for common phpBB directory structures led to the discovery that the /install directory often contains installation-related files. This information was confirmed by documentation on the official phpBB website.

Following that lead, we navigated to /web-serveur/ch6/phpbb/install/, where we found an index.php file.

Examining its contents ultimately revealed the flag.

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