[picoCTF] WebDecode

Description

Do you know how to use the web inspector? Start searching here to find the flag


If you click on the link provided, it takes you to a website. alt text

There’s a navbar at the top with three options, home, about, and contact If you navigate to the about page, it says Try inspecting the page!! You might find it there.


alt text When you inspect the elements of the page, you’ll notice that the section tag has an attribute called notify_true="cGljb0NURnt3ZWJfc3VjYzNzc2Z1bGx5X2QzYzBkZWRfMjgzZTYyZmV9". This looks suspicious and encrypted.


I googled the word decode and the first thing that popped up was base64. I decided to give it a try since we didn’t know if the string was actually encoded or, if it was, how it was encoded

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I decoded the found string and it turned out to be an encrypted string.

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we found the flag.

flag: picoCTF{web_succ3ssfully_d3c0ded_283e62fe}

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