Bypassing WAFs with the phantom $Version cookie
HTTP cookies often control critical website features, but their long and convoluted history exposes them to parser discrepancy vulnerabilities.
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New crazy payloads in the URL Validation Bypass Cheat Sheet
The strength of our URL Validation Bypass Cheat Sheet lies in the contributions from the web security community, and today’s update is no exception.
Concealing payloads in URL credentials
Last year Johan Carlsson discovered you could conceal payloads inside the credentials part of the URL .
Introducing the URL validation bypass cheat sheet
URL validation bypasses are the root cause of numerous vulnerabilities including many instances of SSRF, CORS misconfiguration, and open redirection.
Gotta cache 'em all: bending the rules of web cache exploitation
Through the years, we have seen many attacks exploiting web caches to hijack sensitive information or store malicious payloads.
Splitting the email atom: exploiting parsers to bypass access controls
Some websites parse email addresses to extract the domain and infer which organisation the owner belongs to. This pattern makes email-address parser discrepa...
Listen to the whispers: web timing attacks that actually work
Websites are riddled with timing oracles eager to divulge their innermost secrets. It's time we started listening to them.
Fickle PDFs: exploiting browser rendering discrepancies
Imagine the CEO of a random company receives an email containing a PDF invoice file. In Safari and MacOS Preview, the total price displayed is £399.
A hacking hat-trick: previewing three PortSwigger Research publications coming to DEF CON & Black Hat USA
We're delighted to announce three major research releases from PortSwigger Research will be published at both Black Hat USA and DEF CON 32.
Firefox will upgrade more Mixed Content in Version 127
Most of the web already supports HTTPS: In fact, 93% of requests made by Firefox are already HTTPS. As a reminder, HTTP over TLS (HTTPS) fixes the security s...
Refining your HTTP perspective, with bambdas
When you open a HTTP request or response, what do you instinctively look for? Suspicious parameter names?
Introducing SignSaboteur: forge signed web tokens with ease
Signed web tokens are widely used for stateless authentication and authorization throughout the web.
Rapidly Leveling up Firefox Security
At Mozilla, we believe in an open web that is safe to use. To that end, we improve and maintain the security of people using Firefox around the world.
Using form hijacking to bypass CSP
In this post we'll show you how to bypass CSP by using an often overlooked technique that can enable password theft in a seemingly secure configuration. What...
Hiding payloads in Java source code strings
In this post we'll show you how Java handles unicode escapes in source code strings in a way you might find surprising - and how you can abuse them to concea...
Finding that one weird endpoint, with Bambdas
Security research involves a lot of failure.
Mozilla VPN Security Audit 2023
To provide transparency into our ongoing efforts to protect your privacy and security on the Internet, we are releasing a security audit of Mozilla VPN that ...
Blind CSS Exfiltration: exfiltrate unknown web pages
This is a gif of the exfiltration process (We've increased the speed so you're not waiting around for 1 minute). Read on to discover how this works.
The single-packet attack: making remote race-conditions 'local'
The single-packet attack is a new technique for triggering web race conditions.
How to build custom scanners for web security research automation
In this post, I'll share my approach to developing custom automation to aid research into under-appreciated attack classes and (hopefully) push the boundarie...