API Discovery with Kiterunner

API Discovery with Kiterunner

Content discovery is often focused on finding files and folders. However, modern applications not longer conform to this hierarchical approach and specifically applications that use APIs. Kiterunner is a tool that can be used to discover routes and endpoints used in...
Encoding and Decoding Primer

Encoding and Decoding Primer

When testing web applications, the understanding and use of various encoding schemes is a fundamental skill. In particular, we often see Base64, URL encoding, and HTML encoding used across many applications both as part of the application’s general functionality and...
ID Tokens vs Access Tokens: What’s the Difference?

ID Tokens vs Access Tokens: What’s the Difference?

In the realm of secure authentication, two key elements often come to the fore: ID tokens and access tokens. Though these elements might seem similar, understanding their differences, common pitfalls, and best practices is crucial in ensuring the security of your...
Learn WebApp Pentesting: 2023 Edition

Learn WebApp Pentesting: 2023 Edition

In 2023, there are more resources to learn new skills and progress than ever. However, this industry is also moving and growing rapidly, and more isn’t necessarily better. The phrase “drinking from a fire hose” comes to mind. Today we’re going to be looking at a path...
Exploiting Mass Assignment Vulnerabilities

Exploiting Mass Assignment Vulnerabilities

What is Mass Assignment? Mass assignment is a feature, and it makes our lives easier when trying to map input passed from the front end to the back end. By automatically assigning values to the properties of an object, we save some time in development and gain some...
Manual vs Automated Code Review

Manual vs Automated Code Review

Ensuring our code is secure is a critical part of protecting our applications and we should strive to build applications that are both secure by design and in practice. Many organizations use different approaches to achieve this. Today we’re going to take a look at...