Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2025
2026-05-26T20:51:52Z•9bdc2d93565a0fb795267f9980055d025d011afe1b8bc6c02952ec91ddb9e27c
AI-assisted-testingBurp-extensionsCSP-bypassCSS-exfiltrationHTTP-desyncHttpOnly-bypassJWT-forgerySAMLURL-validation-bypassWAF-bypassWebSocketauthentication-bypasscookie-prefix-bypasspentesting-toolsportswiggerrace-conditionsrequest-smugglingresearchtiming-attacksweb-cache-exploitationweb-security
What happened
Collection of PortSwigger Research posts (2024–2026) highlighting modern web-attack techniques and tooling. Notable topics include SAML authentication parser inconsistencies leading to full auth bypasses, HTTP/1.1 desynchronisation and request smuggling/desync exploitation, cookie-prefix and HttpOnly bypasses, CSS-based data exfiltration, JWT signing/forgery, WebSocket analysis, WAF and URL-validation bypasses, web cache exploitation, timing/race attacks, and several Burp Suite AI-powered extensions to aid testing. These findings describe high-impact attack classes (unauthenticated admin take-
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- 2026-05-26T20:51:52Z
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- Yes
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