Post 10: Burp Suite for Web Pentesters The Swiss Army Proxy for Recon, Exploitation, and Mastery Burp Suite is the most powerful tool in a web pentester’s arsenal. Whether you’re performing recon, brute-forcing, exploiting injection points, or breaking session management — Burp is where it all happens. This post is your complete guide to mastering […]
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Post 9: Business Logic Attacks Breaking the Rules That Developers Never Thought You’d Try Business logic attacks exploit the intended behavior of an application in ways that developers didn’t anticipate. These aren’t technical misconfigurations like SQLi or XSS — they’re workflow flaws, authorization gaps, or assumptions gone wrong. Table of Contents 1. What Are Business
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Post 8: Session & Cookie Attacks Hijacking, Tampering, and Exploiting Session Mismanagement Sessions are how web apps remember who you are. If sessions are misconfigured or implemented poorly, an attacker can take over user accounts, impersonate admins, and bypass authentication entirely. This post breaks down how session and cookie handling works, and how you can
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Post 7: Local & Remote File Inclusion (LFI/RFI) Reading, Poisoning, and Exploiting Server-Side Files File inclusion vulnerabilities happen when a web application loads files based on user input — and doesn’t validate or sanitize that input properly. These bugs can let you: Table of Contents 1. What is LFI and RFI? LFI (Local File Inclusion)The
Post 6: File Upload Vulnerabilities From Upload Field to Remote Code Execution If a web application allows users to upload files, you’re potentially looking at an RCE jackpot. File upload vulnerabilities occur when the app fails to properly validate or restrict file types, extensions, or paths — allowing attackers to upload malicious files like web
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Post 5: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Weaponizing the Browser Against the User Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is one of the most misunderstood yet most common web vulnerabilities. It allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into web pages viewed by other users, often leading to session hijacking, defacement, phishing, or stealing credentials. This guide walks through everything from
Post 4: Command Injection Turning Web Inputs into System Shells Command Injection occurs when user input is passed directly to the system shell without proper sanitization. This allows an attacker to run arbitrary commands — and in many cases, it leads directly to remote code execution (RCE). This post walks you through finding, confirming, and
Post 3: SQL Injection (SQLi) for Web Pentesters SQL Injection is one of the most powerful and commonly exploited vulnerabilities in web apps — and still comes up often in OSCP and eCPPT. If you can find it, you can often bypass authentication, read sensitive data, or even get a shell. This post covers both
Post 2: Authentication Testing in Web Applications Authentication is where users are supposed to prove who they are — but for pentesters, it’s also where web apps often fail the hardest. Broken authentication is one of the most common ways into a web application. This guide walks you through everything you need to know: what
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Post 1: Web Reconnaissance & Enumeration Finding Every Hidden Door Before You Break In In any web pentest, recon is everything. Most people rush into testing for SQLi or XSS, but that’s like trying to rob a house without checking if the back door is already open. This post is your step-by-step guide to web
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