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Platform: TryHackMe Room: Blog Difficulty: Medium Author: Shikhali Jamalzade “Billy Joel made a blog on his home computer and has started working on it\. It’s going to be so awesome\!” Introduction The Blog room on TryHackMe is a medium-difficulty machine themed around a WordPress blog run by “Billy Joel\.” Beneath the casual surface, the machine hides a real CVE — CVE-2019–8942 , a WordPress image crop Remote Code Execution vulnerability — paired with an unconventional custom binary for priv...