Summary

  • Paginator v2 is a web challenge found on ctf.nullcon.net during NullCon CTF 2025, which requires participants to utilise SQL injection in order to uncover a flag encoded in base64
  • The challenge webpage initially creates a table and populates it with data in the background, with the flag not directly stored in this table, as per previous versions of the challenge
  • Using a UNION-based injection payload to ascertain the contents of a presumed “flag” table, where the table number is guessed and the rank is determined with an asterisk, allows the flag to be revealed
  • The flag is then deciphered using online decoding tools, with the solution being: “FLAG: ENO{SQL1_W1th_0uT_C0mm4_W0rks_SomeHow_AgA1n_And_Ag41n!

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