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2026-02-22
Web
Medium
WHAMazon! Web 4 - The Archives
Chaining prior recon from robots.txt with API endpoint fuzzing and a missing-result anomaly to discover a path traversal vulnerability in an image file server.
path-traversal
directory-traversal
lfi
local-file-inclusion
2026-02-22
Web
Easy
WHAMazon! Web 2 - Employee of the Month
Combining GitHub OSINT with API endpoint discovery to find hardcoded admin credentials left in a public seed script.
osint
source-code
default-credentials
recon