May 22, 2025

Web Hacking Arsenal: A Practical Guide to Modern Web Pentesting

30 minutes

A practical guide to modern web penetration testing authored by Rafay Baloch and published by CRC Press in 2025. The content covers a wide range of web security topics, beginning with fundamentals of web and browser interaction, including HTTP, encoding, and browser security policies. It progresses through techniques for intelligence gathering and enumeration, identifying server-side vulnerabilities like SQL injection, command injection, and template injection, and analyzing business logic flaws. The text also examines client-side attacks such as cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery, file system vulnerabilities, authentication and authorization weaknesses including those in JWT and OAuth, and attacks against web services like SOAP, REST, and GraphQL. Finally, it discusses techniques for evading Web Application Firewalls and best practices for pentest report writing.

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