Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2025

2026-07-23T20:51:56Zc5c46972b40f926f71b1c947523c766b122ed4dbcd60fb3b0a89105b78729d03
Burp-extensionsCSS-exfiltrationHTTP-desyncHTTP-request-smugglingJWT-forgeryPDF-rendering-issuesSAMLURL-validation-bypassWAF-bypassWebSocket-securityauthentication-bypasscache-poisoningcookie-prefix-bypasshttponly-bypassrequest-smuggling-detectionresearch-collectionsecurity-toolstiming-attacksunicode-overflowweb-application-security

What happened

Collection of PortSwigger Research posts (2023–2026) covering a wide range of modern, high-impact web attack techniques and tooling. Highlights include parser-level SAML authentication bypasses (Ruby/PHP) enabling unauthenticated admin access, HTTP/1.1 desynchronisation (request smuggling/desync) exploitation and mitigation failings, cookie-prefix and HttpOnly bypass techniques, CSS-based data exfiltration, JWT signing forgery tooling, and new exploitation techniques for WebSockets, caches, Unicode truncation, and timing oracles. The corpus also introduces offensive/defensive tooling and cheat

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2026-07-23T20:51:56Z
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