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CSS:the bomb inside your inbox

Gareth Heyes - gareth.heyes@portswigger.net - @garethheyes It's quite common for webmail clients to render untrusted CSS in a trusted UI. They attempt to make this safe using CSS s...

Aug 6, 2026 UTC
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CRLF-Powered Desync Attacks: Beheading HTTP Streams

Abstract In this paper we’ll show that HTTP Header Injection is severely underestimated. Forget open redirects or Cross-Site Scripting and instead, embrace the catastrophic potenti...

Aug 5, 2026 UTC
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Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2025

Welcome to the Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2025, the 19th edition of our annual community-powered effort to identify the most innovative must-read web security research publis...

Feb 5, 2026 UTC
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The Fragile Lock: Novel Bypasses For SAML Authentication

TLDR This post shows how to achieve a full authentication bypass in the Ruby and PHP SAML ecosystem by exploiting several parser-level inconsistencies: including attribute pollutio...

Dec 10, 2025 UTC
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Introducing HTTP Anomaly Rank

HTTP Anomaly Rank If you've ever used Burp Intruder or Turbo Intruder, you'll be familiar with the ritual of manually digging through thousands of responses by repeatedly sorting t...

Nov 11, 2025 UTC
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HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame

Abstract Upstream HTTP/1.1 is inherently insecure and regularly exposes millions of websites to hostile takeover. Six years of attempted mitigations have hidden the issue, but fail...

Aug 6, 2025 UTC