Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2025
2026-03-19T08:51:58Z•fa04f6c6049aec40c2a8df613eb4c3b77e7cbd4a1ec7272adf531a6101de5225
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What happened
Collection of PortSwigger Research posts (2023–2026) aggregating high-impact web security discoveries and tooling. Notable topics include parser-level SAML authentication bypasses (Ruby/PHP), SAML/GitLab chain attacks, HTTP/1.1 desync and request-smuggling analysis (including TRACE-assisted exploitation), cookie-prefix and HttpOnly bypass techniques, CSS-based data exfiltration, Unicode/truncation attacks, race-condition and single-packet attacks, JWT signing abuse, WebSocket analysis, new Burp AI/extensions for testing, and multiple URL/URL-validation/SSRF/XSS parser-discrepancy and cache-exfi
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- 2026-03-19T08:51:58Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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