Web Security

Information and tips on keeping websites and web applications secure. Topics include common threats, secure coding, and protection tools.
Attacking Access Control Models in Modern Web Apps
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Attacking Access Control Models in Modern Web Apps
So far you may have come across various web applications where you were able to invite members with limited access to the information within the organization. Developers are able to make such applications or services by implementing access control models within their applications. What are Access Control Models: Access control
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Attacking Rate Limit Protection in Modern Web Apps
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Attacking Rate Limit Protection in Modern Web Apps
What is rate-limiting? Well, Rate limiting is a process of limiting requests received by the networking device. It is used to control network traffic. Suppose a web server allows up to 20 requests per minute. If you try to send more than 20 requests, an error will be triggered. A
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Attacking Business Logic issues in Modern Web Apps
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Attacking Business Logic issues in Modern Web Apps
The complexity of the modern applications has increased exponentially in the past decade. Unfortunately, this has also increased the attacker surface and hence increased the total number of vulnerabilities that have been found on such applications. One such type being business logic vulnerabilities. So what is a business logic vulnerability?
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Attacking CORS Misconfigurations in Modern Web Apps
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Attacking CORS Misconfigurations in Modern Web Apps
If you are a developer, you already know that it’s nearly impossible to keep every resource in one place. It’s expensive (because everything has to be managed by one party) and it gets quite messy. So you maybe thinking that developers can potentially use two different domains to
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Attacking 2FA in Modern Web Apps
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Attacking 2FA in Modern Web Apps
You might be familiar with the annoying OTPS or other authentication tokens delivered right after you log into your favorite site. This article will help you to understand the purpose of 2FA and its exploitation. I have also drafted some of the 2FA bypasses you can use these techniques to
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Attacking File Uploads in Modern Web Applications
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Attacking File Uploads in Modern Web Applications
File sharing or simple file upload functionality is a widely used feature in web apps now a days. Any misconfiguration in this one feature can put the entire application or even organization at a great risk. In this article I will talk about this vulnerability, how to attack it and
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Attacking Authentication in Modern Web Applications
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Attacking Authentication in Modern Web Applications
Authentication issues are easy to understand however they can sometimes prove the most critical ones because of the fact that authentication is the core of security in any application. In the forthcoming sections, we will discuss briefly authentication and how various authentication mechanisms can be exploited. What is authentication? Familiar
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