Tenten

Verified writeups for the Tenten machine of Hack The Box

Tenten

$ tldr WP Job Manager (CVE-2015-6668) + steg → SSH key crack + sudo

CVE / Bulletins: CVE-2015-6668 ↗

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Operating system	Linux
Difficulty	Medium
Vector	Web
IP	10.10.10.10
Retirement date	2020-07-14
Skills	Wordpress Enumeration CV filename disclosure on Job-Manager Wordpress Plugin [CVE-2015-6668] Steganography Challenge (Steghide) Cracking Hashes [Protected SSH Private Key] Abusing sudoers privilege

Writeups

Language	Author	Format	Link
🇪🇸 ES	S4vitar	Vídeo	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
WordPress Exploitation	HackTricks	Open
Cracking Hashes (hashcat / John)	HackTricks	Open
Steganography (Stego)	HackTricks	Open

Related skills worth mastering

Remote Code Execution (RCE) · Brute Force / Rate-Limit Bypass

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• Blocky — Linux, Easy

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Last updated: 2026-06-07