Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2025
2026-07-02T20:51:56Z•5d60325d77ec71b9d62314fb9ed86be0defb9a4872e7bbf3b5af1a82ad6ba19d
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What happened
Collection of PortSwigger Research posts (2024–2026) summarizing high-impact web-security research and tools. Notable findings include parser-level SAML inconsistencies and namespace confusion yielding full authentication bypasses in Ruby/PHP SAML libraries (The Fragile Lock / SAML roulette), large-scale HTTP/1.1 desync and request-smuggling exploits (including TRACE-assisted desync), techniques to bypass cookie security prefixes and steal HttpOnly cookies (cookie sandwich / cookie-prefix bypasses), CSS-based data exfiltration, WebSocket fuzzing/exploitation approaches, JWT forgery tooling (SS
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- portswigger_research
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- 2026-07-02T20:51:56Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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