Also for the foothold, the way I found it was using a website that scans a certain file that is exclusive to the language involved in the blog. It parses the file and looks for vulns.
I found it like 5 minutes after the box was live. I was sure I was going to get blood, and then I had to go to work, and then I couldn’t get my payload to work properly, and then I drank too much.
I thought this was my one chance for HTB glory, because even easy boxes take me like 5 hours, usually, but alas, it was not in the cards, lololol.