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LinkedIn connection marked unsafe
From time to time my LinkedIn connection gets marked as unsafe: no green lock next to the URL.
First, I believed this was a browser issue, but after I switched to another browser, the warning did not ...
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Security risks of fetching user-supplied URLs
We are considering to add the following feature to our web application (an online product database, if it matters):
Instead of uploading an image, the user can provide the (self-hosted) URL of an ...
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HTTP/HTTPS/GET/POST : in which cases can a malicious router between client and server find a secret information? [duplicate]
Let's say I connect a safe server example.com.
In which case(s) can a malicious router in the middle of the route (or my ISP) see secret?
1) HTTP + GET, secret in URL query parameter : http://...
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Username in browser history (url) - is this a security problem?
We have a client complaining that there is PII in the browser history (as in the persistent history you get to through your browser's menu - Ctrl + H in Chrome). For example, the URL for editing a ...
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URL Contains Sensitive Data - Alternative Besides Switching To Post?
One of my company's clients recently produced an application security assessment report, noting a list of violations based on OWASP's top 10 list of web application security risks. One of the ...
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Should a bank/financial service use external URL shortener services?
Say there is a bank/financial service that wants to have hyperlinks on their secure website/domain (or even in emails they send out to customers). In some of these links there are some long/obscure ...
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In SQL injections why do they put “— -” at the end of the URL?
I understand when they put a + at the end, URL treats it like a space.
I want to know what -- - does. I do know what the "double dash" does. Including the double dash with a "space at the end". I ...
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How URL Encoding Works?
I am learning about web security but very confused about URL Encoding, it will be big help if anyone can help.
On PortSwigger, I learned that url
"http://127.0.0.1/admin"
can be used as
"http://127.0....
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How can i cause a redirect in browser?
I'm able to edit a parameter which is then reflected inside a link. I'd like to know how and if it's possible to cause a redirect. In shorts when i edit the parameter example like this example=/test....
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Demonstrating reflected XSS with GET Parameter and URL encoding
A client is developing a website which is vulnerable to reflected XSS through a GET parameter:
https://example.com/vulnerable-url?")||true)alert("XSS");</script>
I would like to demonstrate ...
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Does HTTP protocol interpret contents of cookies and query strings in URL, whereas it doesn't interpret message bodies?
HTTP knows to look for user names and passwords in authorization
headers in HTTP requests. So this is at HTTP level.
Is it correct that putting user passwords into message bodies of
HTTP requests is ...
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does HTTP PUT data get encrypted over TLS (HTTPS)? [duplicate]
I am wondering if the "/todo1" part of the below URL
curl https://someserver:5000/todo1 -d "data=Remember the milk" -X PUT
Gets encrypted over TLS/HTTPS, or is the full URL that you're sending your ...
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Can random subdomain naming enhance security?
I have a bunch of services which I want to group under a subdomain. Somehow 2-factor authentication is not possible to identify the users of these services. I have a thought to have randomly named ...
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Injecting script from outside for local machine url request
I have setup a local apache server with php module.I deployed a dvwa in my localmachinne..I am learning about XSS(DOM) type of attack.I setup the low level security in dvwa.When i added <script>...
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SQL injection using URL query string (web application/php server)
Hacker is trying to attack the site by using the following SQL injection query to get the SQL version.
Using URL site. example:
www.abc.com/?queryParamString=(SELECT 9701 FROM(SELECT COUNT(*),...
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Passing 3rd Party Access Token in redirection URL of 3rd Party Website
I am integrating a website with 3rd party API. The 3rd party site allows me to generate Access Token by using Client Key/Client Secret.
In one of the pages, I need to redirect to 3rd party site 's ...
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Is using “Signature Versioning” in Amazon S3 a secure way of selling ebooks?
I own an ecommerce platform that sells large (500 megabyte+) ebooks. To reduce server costs I am looking at hosting the ebooks on S3 and using Sendowl/ FetchApp to create the links to the downloads.
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Can a URL contain executable JavaScript?
I am learning about "Session fixation" and have read the corresponding OWASP page.
In their Example 2 in the above page, they describe an attack via JavaScript, that is embedded in the URL like:
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one-time link on 1ty.me
1ty.me is a website that allows you to send secret messages (password, nuclear code, etc.) to someone with a one-time link. So when someone receives the link and clicks on it, the secret message is ...
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Phishing urls from shnpoc.net/McAfee?
I was looking into my websites traffic and found few entries from a subdomain for shnpoc.net domain. And when I looked into it, it was transparent proxying my website.
On checking further, I found ...
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Blocking URL brute-forcing on my server
Every day my server receives many GET requests in search of security holes. In other words, they are trying a list of words in search of a hole.
for example:
http://myapp.com/phpmyadmin
http://...
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Why modern php web application requires to specify the application's url?
Pieces of web applications such as WordPress or moodle require to specify the URL that the user will provide in order to visit the site. For example, in moodle has the $CFG->wwwroot config ...
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Trace the orgins of a DNS request [duplicate]
I installed a DNS server on a Raspberry PI to monitor DNS requests. One request that is curious is "fscta65w.com." It keeps showing up in the querlog from a macbookPro but I can't seem to find out the ...
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How to protect against injection into a 3rd party REST API?
I have a 3rd party API that I need to connect to and they allow queries that can be formed by changing url parameters.
E.g. /data?startDate=2019-01-01 or /data?name='John Doe'
It is easy to form ...
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What type of vulnerabilty is this?
I'm testing a website:
https://this-site.com/path/to/dirs
but what i've found is if I do the following below the site will load 4 pages in a infinite loop
https://this-site.com/path/to/dirs/.../.
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What does IIS query string validation protect from?
Recently we had a failure in one of our systems because IIS rejects query strings with (URL encoded) parameter values containing the sequence &#. It doesn't reject & #.
We've got tired of ...
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Replace PATH space with random string
I came across
http://test.co.uk/img/rOTJwSOqWzHaDsEUcHhI.
If we take a look at it the directory space is protected against bruteforcing of the whole directory to explore private images.
I don't know ...
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What's the security risk of using a protocol-relative URL in a CSS stylesheet?
I used SonarQube to perform a static code analysis of my project and it detected a security vulnerability in one of my CSS files:
For security reasons, protocol-relative URLs should not be used.
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Hacker101 Spoilter #2 EASY Micro-CMS v1
I am just getting into CTF and Hacking in general. I am very confused as to why this worked when I added an apostrophe to the end it reveals the flag. I have Burp Community Edition suite going and I ...
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What is this URL that loads each time Google Chrome spawns?
What does this URL do that opens each time Google Chrome loads?
http://redirector.gvt1.com/edgedl/chromewebstore/L2Nocm9tZV9leHRlbnNpb24vYmxvYnMvOWVmQUFXS041NV9ZVXlJVWwxbGc5TUM4dw/7519.422.0....
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Is exposing enumerated id's a bad idea if precautions are taken?
Say I have a website that has the URL website.com/student/{studentId}/courses for retrieving all the courses a student is enrolled in. The studentId is an auto-incrementing value in the Student table ...
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Exposing a version number through the assets urls
I just received a blackbox pentesting report where the security company recommended to hide the version number from the page (be it returned to the user as a text or used as a cache-buster in the css/...
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Can phishing site URL shorten into numbers?
A suspected hacker was trying to get the user to input those numbers (2412958) in their address book. And user knows that the numbers are weird.
Can URLs be shortened in texts like that?
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Url Storage, History & Personal Data
Just Curious to Know,
Where my information is being stored and how long its kept for
I'm running the latest version of windows 10,
my main Browser being firefox developer edition 68.
I clear my ...
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Viewing URLs on Mobile Devices
What are you doing to help your users view URLs in emails on mobile devices? Our training program is helping people to understand how to view URLs before clicking the actual link. On mobile devices ...
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S3 Bucket Name Obscurity as Security
Edited to clarify: *The bucket is used by EC2 instances that process its data and display parts of it to the user. The EC2-S3 interaction is invisible to the user. *
Can I assume that a public S3 ...
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Encrypting PHI query params
In a bunch of APIs, there are several possible query parameters. Some of these may be PHI. So even if we are using HTTPS, they could go to a logfile or somewhere else and hence violate PHI.
Was ...
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Is there any security advantage to hiding URL parameters?
I am building a web app that needs to be secure. Is there any security advantage to hiding path parameters? I am using Angular (I don't know if this is important).
What I mean by hiding path ...
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URL query string params Django security
I am new to Django and I am working on a website, where you can filter some articles using a normal GET url query string param. Theese params can be made from some input fields. I have found two ...
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Is it a good rule of thumb to keep a URL as short as possible?
I was wondering if there are any security risks of having too long URLs for an internet site.
Of course there are things that don't matter if they're long or not, i.e. the actual hostname and ...
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How do I investigate a suspicious link?
I made a RuneScape account about a week ago. I stupidly responded to a scam by clicking on a link provided to me in the game. I think I may have a keylogger, which would explain why my new account was ...
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is it possible that an attacker catch a page name from history?
like if an attacker sets a dns rebinding would he be able to get the router name from the history so he can make his attack more accurate .
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Semantic URL Attack Mitigation
I want to know what is the best approach for preventing URL Jumping / URL Tampering Attacks
Example
updateprofile.php?uid=1
I can change to
updateprofile.php?uid=2
I can update the second user'...
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Bypassing URL verification [closed]
I'm dealing with a URL validation function that was made by the developer (instead of using trusted methods).
Here is a slightly modified version of the function:
public static bool IsValidURL(...
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Is session id in url itself for all the requests an issue? [closed]
Is session id in url itself for all the requests an issue?
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I was redirected to an infected site, what should I do?
I always avoid suspicious links, but recently, in one of my google searches, I clicked the first link on google (looked just a normal site), but it immediately redirected me to a weird news site (the ...
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Weird Google Redirect Bug?
So I was recently show by a friend something that is happening to a real estate website. It seems that when their website is accessed from a regular URL request in browser it is fine however when ...
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how to decode this request [closed]
I need help for this. I got a request but I don't know what can I do:
GET http://localhost/xor.php?plaintext=cipher=%00%00%1D%10%1A,%06%05%16%16%0D%12%0B%3A9%5DRT%06YVD HTTP/1.1
Full request : https:...
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Is this redirect on my website dangerous?
I have this URL that I sometimes use to redirect my users. It looks like:
https://mywebsite.com/?redirectTo=
However, I'm checking if the domain part of the parameter ends with:
google.com
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How to determine if a website has been hijacked?
I noticed that the URL of a website I sometimes visit was redirecting to a new URL. I noticed this through a tool that I use that does not actually load the new URL.
I was surprised by this change, ...
