Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2025

2026-05-28T08:51:56Zc74c1811702032c1bc3276957236cdb31b48a2c77637e9959dd8e4c3af9554a5
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What happened

Collection of PortSwigger Research posts (2023–2026) cataloguing recent, high‑impact web security research and tooling. Highlights include parser‑level SAML flaws enabling full authentication bypasses (Ruby/PHP saml libraries), HTTP desync and request‑smuggling endgames (including TRACE‑based exploitation), cookie prefix and HttpOnly bypass techniques, CSS‑based data exfiltration, WebSocket fuzzing/exploitation tooling, JWT forgery tooling, WAF and URL‑validation bypasses, cache exploitation, timing oracles, CSP/form‑hijacking bypasses, and several AI/extension tools (Repeater Strike, Shadow/​

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2026-05-28T08:51:56Z
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