HackThisSite - JavaScript Mission 5

Challenge

Javascript Mission 5: Uhm, faith spelled runescape wrong?

索引名为 Escape!，难度 easy。页面上只有一个密码框和 Check Password 按钮，密码被一层百分号编码包着，用 unescape() 在浏览器里解出来。

Solution

页面没有任何把密码送去服务端校验的请求：比对全在客户端的 check() 里完成，命中后用 window.location = "../../../missions/javascript/5/?lvl_password="+x 回跳。

拉取页面源码：

$ curl -s -b "$HTS_COOKIE" \
    -H "Referer: https://www.hackthissite.org/missions/javascript/5/" \
    "https://www.hackthissite.org/missions/javascript/5/" -o lvl5.html

页面内联脚本（业务部分全文）：

moo = unescape("%69%6C%6F%76%65%6D%6F%6F");
function check(x) {
  if (x == moo) {
    alert("Ahh.. so that's what she means");
    window.location = "../../../missions/javascript/5/?lvl_password=" + x;
  } else {
    alert("Nope... try again!");
  }
}

moo 直接由 unescape(...) 得到，check(x) 只做一次相等比较，相等就带着 x 回跳。

unescape() 是早期的百分号解码器，%XX 中的 XX 是字符的十六进制 ASCII 码。逐个翻译：

%69 = 0x69 = 105 = i
%6C = 0x6C = 108 = l
%6F = 0x6F = 111 = o
%76 = 0x76 = 118 = v
%65 = 0x65 = 101 = e
%6D = 0x6D = 109 = m
%6F = 0x6F = 111 = o
%6F = 0x6F = 111 = o

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Recover the JavaScript Mission 5 password from the fetched page source.

The page assigns the expected value at load time:

    moo = unescape('%69%6C%6F%76%65%6D%6F%6F');

`unescape()` is the legacy percent-decoder, so the password is just that
literal decoded once.  urllib.parse.unquote is the modern equivalent.
"""
import re
import urllib.parse


def main():
    src = open("lvl5.html", encoding="utf-8", errors="replace").read()
    match = re.search(r"unescape\('([^']*)'\)", src)
    if match is None:
        raise SystemExit("could not find an unescape() literal in lvl5.html")
    encoded = match.group(1)
    password = urllib.parse.unquote(encoded)
    print("encoded  :", encoded)
    print("decoded  :", repr(password))


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

$ uv run python decode5.py
encoded  : %69%6C%6F%76%65%6D%6F%6F
decoded  : 'ilovemoo'

$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}\n' -b "$HTS_COOKIE" \
    -H "Referer: https://www.hackthissite.org/missions/javascript/5/" \
    "https://www.hackthissite.org/missions/javascript/5/?lvl_password=ilovemoo"
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