--- title: Vulnhub Prime: 1 — A Local File Inclusion (LFI)... description: A walkthrough of the VulnHub Prime 1 CTF machine, focusing on exploiting a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability. The process covers network reconnaissance... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/vulnhub-prime-1-a-local-file-inclusion-lfi-vulnerability-b2ik3peow twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Vulnhub Prime: 1 — A Local File Inclusion (LFI) Vulnerability | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of the VulnHub Prime 1 CTF machine, focusing on exploiting a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability. The process covers network reconnaissance... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/vulnhub-prime-1-a-local-file-inclusion-lfi-vulnerability-b2ik3peow og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/b2ik3peoW.png og:image:alt: Vulnhub Prime: 1 — A Local File Inclusion (LFI) Vulnerability og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Vulnhub Prime: 1 — A Local File Inclusion (LFI) Vulnerability **[InfoSec Write-ups](https://daily.dev/sources/infosecwriteups)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of the VulnHub Prime 1 CTF machine, focusing on exploiting a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability. The process covers network reconnaissance with Nmap, directory enumeration with Dirb, discovering a WordPress installation, exploiting an LFI in image.php to read /etc/passwd, using found credentials to access WordPress, uploading a PHP reverse shell, and finally escalating privileges to root using a kernel exploit found via Searchsploit. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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