I was going over an application I wrote prepping for my upcoming class and realized the shortcoming’s of Burp’s default session handling mechanisms. Not to knock Burp, but working with a Single Page Application (SPA) that makes calls to several APIs using a JSON Web Token (JWT)…
I’ve been a little obsessed with the session handling tool-set that Burp Suite provides. I’ve been running into web applications that aggressively tear down (de-authenticate) sessions for any number of given reasons. Could be the volume of requests sent, malicious input, time-based, accessing a certain section of…
I’ve been procrastinating finalizing some basic research and putting my thoughts into a blog post regarding Same Origin Policy (SOP), Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF), and Content Security Policy (CSP). I am hoping to spend some more time on it…
This is the second post in a series where I look to create a framework to build and test proof-of-concepts in hopes of gaining a deeper understanding of various web application fundamentals. In this post I’ll introduce a few vulnerable scripts you can use to research various…
I’ve been working with web applications quite a bit lately and have been finding myself wanting to work with proof-of-concepts in order to explore certain types of vulnerabilities and attacks. I decided to work with the Apache web-server and PHP (on CentOS) to help with my journey.…