PWN ADELPHIA

LurK Squad Presents

Pwnadelphia

An intentionally broken city where hackers train, creeps get exposed, and scripts meet streetlights.

Zones of PWNadelphia

Each zone is a slice of the same broken city. Pick a target, read the briefing, and learn what happens when “we’ll patch it later” becomes permanent.

Market Street Bank

Where uptime mattered more than updates.

Difficulty
Intermediate
Focus
Web app, authentication, input validation

Market Street Bank still runs on a web stack old enough to remember dial-up. Patches got postponed, audits got ignored, and somehow it’s still accepting logins like nothing’s wrong.

In this zone, you’ll roam an outdated banking portal, study how small shortcuts pile up into big holes, and learn why “we’ll patch it next quarter” is the most expensive sentence in security.

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Broad & 0day Bar

Free Wi-Fi, paid consequences.

Difficulty
Beginner–Intermediate
Focus
Network basics, Wi-Fi, segmentation, passive recon

The Broad & 0day is a neon dive where the drinks are weak, but the Wi-Fi is wide open. Guests connect, staff connect, random strangers connect—and nobody remembers who set up the router.

Here you’ll explore the dangers of public networks, sloppy segmentation, and devices that quietly volunteer more information than anyone realizes.

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Motel 1337

Check in with ID, check out with your data missing.

Difficulty
Intermediate–Advanced
Focus
Auth, access control, insecure storage

Motel 1337 runs a “custom” booking system written by someone’s cousin a decade ago and never touched again. Passwords live too close to plain text, and every exposed endpoint tells a story.

This zone walks you through weak authentication, broken access controls, and the kind of technical debt that turns into front-page incidents.

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City Hall CMS

Democracy powered by outdated plugins.

Difficulty
Intermediate
Focus
CMS hardening, misconfig, attack surface mapping

The official PWNadelphia city website looks respectable from the outside. Inside, it’s duct tape: abandoned plugins, risky themes, and a content management system glued together with hope.

You’ll see how small misconfigurations in public-facing sites become footholds, and how a neglected CMS can quietly become the soft underbelly of an entire city.

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What is Pwnadelphia?

Pwnadelphia is a fictional city built to be vulnerable on purpose. Think: a Wild West version of Philly where every bar, bank, and back alley is a lesson in bad security choices.

The goal isn't crime. The goal is education: learn to find bugs, exploit them in a safe sandbox, and understand how to fix them in the real world.

PWNadelphia – Poe's Hoagie Stand

Poe's Hoagie Stand

Build the perfect sandwich order before the city talks trash.

← Back to PWNadelphia

Make Poe's Sandwich

A customer steps up to the stand and rattles off a hoagie order. Your job: pick the right ingredients. Too many extras or missing the important stuff, and Poe's not impressed.

Current Order

Name:

Description:

Notes:

Choose Ingredients

Tap ingredients to add or remove them from the sandwich.

Waiting for your first sandwich... Score: —

Hint: some orders don’t want certain ingredients at all. Read the notes.

Mission: Market Street Bank

Market Street Bank still runs on a web stack old enough to remember dial-up. Tickets got postponed, audits got ignored, and the same brittle login page has been online for years.

Mission: Broad & 0day Bar

The Broad & 0day is a neon dive where the Wi-Fi password has been written on the wall for years. Guests, staff, and randos all share the same network, and no one remembers who set it up.

Mission: Motel 1337

Motel 1337 runs a “custom” booking system a cousin built a decade ago and then abandoned. Passwords live too close to plain text, and every endpoint feels like a confession.

Mission: City Hall CMS

The official PWNadelphia site looks respectable on the surface. Underneath, it’s stacked with abandoned plugins, risky themes, and years of “we’ll clean this up later.”

City Zones (Planned Targets)

  • 🧪 Saloon Login – bad auth & SQL injection
  • 🏦 Bank of Pwnadelphia – cursed file uploads
  • ☠ LurK Squad Ops Center – fake “admin only” panel
  • 💬 Alleyway Message Board – XSS playground

LurK Terminal Integration

Eventually, Pwnadelphia will plug into your custom LurK Terminal so you can poke endpoints and collect flags from your own ops console.

cpt-syntax@lurk-squad:~$ connect pwnadelphia
[+] Establishing link to city grid...
[+] Syncing vulnerable endpoints...
[+] Ready.

cpt-syntax@lurk-squad:~$ # Hack the city, not the planet.
      

Lore & Ground Rules

Pwnadelphia is inspired by real stories: living with intruders, bad mechanics, fake “operators,” and creeps who crumble when someone actually knows what a brake caliper piston is.

This city exists so people like that lose power. Knowledge is the weapon, and this is where you sharpen it.

  • Rule #1: Only attack Pwnadelphia or labs you own.
  • Rule #2: No real-world targets. Ever.
  • Rule #3: Document what you learn. Share knowledge, not ego.