Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2025

2026-07-01T20:51:54Z201cab19f166f9857d5cfd345df7812f7aa729eaa124a0e8f7fa6a19bbfee55d
Burp extensionsCSP bypassCSS exfiltrationHTTP desyncHTTP request smugglingHttpOnly bypassJWT forgerySAMLURL validation bypassUnicode overflow attacksWAF bypassWebSocket fuzzing/exploitation__Host and __Secure prefixesauthentication bypasscache poisoningcookie securityresearch rounduptiming attackstooling/automationweb security

What happened

Feed of PortSwigger Research publications (2023–2026) summarising multiple high-impact web security research posts and tooling. Notable topics include parser-level SAML authentication bypasses (full auth bypasses in Ruby/PHP ecosystems and GitLab via ruby-saml), HTTP request desynchronisation/desync attacks and exploitation techniques (including TRACE-assisted desync and an "HTTP/1.1 must die" analysis), cookie-prefix and HttpOnly bypass techniques ("Cookie Chaos", "cookie sandwich"), CSS-based data exfiltration (inline-style and blind CSS techniques), JWT forgery tooling (SignSaboteur), URL/α

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portswigger_research
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201cab19f166f9857d5cfd345df7812f7aa729eaa124a0e8f7fa6a19bbfee55d
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2026-07-01T20:51:54Z
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