Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2025
2026-06-30T20:51:53Z•e1deb6d94db7af574faa073dbc7ce44c71e60caffeccb5c7a3d55fe7aad98388
Burp-extensionsCSS-exfiltrationHTTP-desyncHttpOnly-bypassJWT-forgerySAMLSSRFWAF-bypassWebSocket-securityauthentication-bypasscookie-prefix-bypassexploit-developmentparser-discrepancyrace-conditionsrequest-smugglingtiming-attacksvulnerability-researchweb-security-research
What happened
Collection of PortSwigger Research posts (including the Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2025) summarising novel web-security research from 2024–2026. Notable items include parser-level SAML flaws producing full authentication bypasses in Ruby/PHP ecosystems (unauthenticated admin access on GitLab Enterprise), widespread HTTP desync/request-smuggling risks and an argument that HTTP/1.1 is fundamentally insecure, cookie-prefix and HttpOnly bypass techniques, CSS-based data exfiltration, WebSocket fuzzing/exploitation tooling, JWT forging tools, WAF and URL-validation bypasses, timing and race‑/
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- 2026-06-30T20:51:53Z
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- Yes
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