TartarSauce

Verified writeups for the TartarSauce machine of Hack The Box

TartarSauce

$ tldr WP Gwolle-gb RFI → sudo tar wildcard → cron analysis privesc

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Operating system	Linux
Difficulty	Medium
Vector	Web
IP	10.10.10.88
Retirement date	2018-10-21
Skills	RFI (Remote File Inclusion) - Abusing Wordpress Plugin [Gwolle-gb] RFI to RCE (Creating our malicious PHP file) Abusing Sudoers Privilege (Tar Command) Abusing Cron Job (Privilege Escalation) [Code Analysis] [Bash Scripting]

Writeups

Language	Author	Format	Link
🇪🇸 ES	S4vitar	Vídeo	Open
🇬🇧 EN	0xdf	Texto	Open
🇬🇧 EN	0xdf	Texto	Open
🇬🇧 EN	IppSec	Vídeo	Open

Skill resources

Curated documentation for each technique listed in the Skills column above. Sources: HackTricks, GTFOBins, PortSwigger, etc.

Skill	Source	Link
Remote File Inclusion (RFI)	HackTricks	Open
WordPress Exploitation	HackTricks	Open
Remote Code Execution (RCE)	HackTricks	Open

Related skills worth mastering

Local File Inclusion (LFI) · Shellshock (CVE-2014-6271)

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Last updated: 2026-06-15