Anti-Slop CTF 2026
21 challenges with 23 published community solutions between them. Solution links go to CTFtime’s task page, which aggregates every writeup for a challenge - individual blog posts rot, the aggregator does not.
Full task list on CTFtimeMisc5
Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.
Also written up in: Ivailo-Klisarov/ctf-writeups
- misc
- writeup
- anti-slop
- antislop
- ctf
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
Baby Maths (Prompt Injection in the Question Stream)
1 official solutionAlso written up in: cybersecurityelite.com
- blockchain
- writeup
- anti-slop
- antislop
- ctf
Same technique in picoCTF: Reentrance, Smart_Overflow, Access_Control
- blockchain
- writeup
- anti-slop
- antislop
- ctf
Same technique in picoCTF: Reentrance, Smart_Overflow, Access_Control
Finality Cache + Canopy Cache
1 official solutionAlso written up in: cybersecurityelite.com
Binary exploitation4
Turn a memory-safety bug in a native binary into control of execution. Usually a stack overflow, a format string, or a heap primitive.
- ctf
- pwn
- anti-slop
- antislop
- binary
- binary-exploitation
- writeup
Same technique in picoCTF: lockdown-horses, Guessing Game 1, Bizz Fuzz
- ctf
- pwn
- anti-slop
- antislop
- binary
- binaryexploitation
- writeup
Same technique in picoCTF: lockdown-horses, Guessing Game 1, Bizz Fuzz
- ctf
- pwn
- anti-slop
- antislop
- binary
- binaryexploitation
- writeup
Same technique in picoCTF: lockdown-horses, Guessing Game 1, Bizz Fuzz
Paper Lantern, Graceful Exit, Anchorpoint
1 official solutionAlso written up in: cybersecurityelite.com
Cryptography3
Recover a plaintext or a key from something that was supposed to protect it. In practice: identify the scheme, find the parameter the author got wrong, exploit it.
- ctf
- cryptography
- anti-slop
- antislop
- crypto
- writeup
Same technique in picoCTF: It's Not My Fault 2, StegoRSA, AES-ABC
Polynomial Drift + Sealed Signal
1 official solutionAlso written up in: cybersecurityelite.com
- ctf
- cryptography
- anti-slop
- antislop
- crypto
- writeup
Same technique in picoCTF: It's Not My Fault 2, StegoRSA, AES-ABC
Web3
Reach data or functionality the application meant to keep from you - through its inputs, its tokens, or its trust in the client.
Also written up in: Ivailo-Klisarov/ctf-writeups
- web
- ctf
- anti-slop
- antislop
Same technique in picoCTF: Live Art, secure-email-service, No FA
- writeup
- web
- anti-slop
- ctf
Same technique in picoCTF: Live Art, secure-email-service, No FA
Slipstream Cache + SloppedRider
1 official solutionAlso written up in: cybersecurityelite.com
Reverse engineering3
Work out what a compiled program does without its source, then work backwards from the check to the input that passes it.
- writeup
- anti-slop
- antislop
- reverse
- ctf
Same technique in picoCTF: Checkpass, WinAntiDbg0x100, WinAntiDbg0x200
Audit Spiral + Parallax Cartridge
1 official solutionAlso written up in: cybersecurityelite.com
- ctf
- anti-slop
- antislop
- reverseengineering
- writeup
- reverse
Same technique in picoCTF: Checkpass, WinAntiDbg0x100, WinAntiDbg0x200
OSINT3
Answer a question about the real world from public sources. The work is pivoting between identifiers, not exploiting anything.
- anti-slop
- ctf
- osint
- antislop
Same technique in picoCTF: CVE-XXXX-XXXX
- anti-slop
- ctf
- osint
- antislop
Same technique in picoCTF: CVE-XXXX-XXXX
Observers Are All You Need + Geoguessr
1 official solutionAlso written up in: cybersecurityelite.com