Questions tagged [web]
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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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Can my oppressive government trace my Twitter activity and detect me?
I want to be active on Twitter against our oppressive government. Can my government trace and detect me?
Twitter is banned here and we must use VPNs. I use Outline (Shadowsocks) mostly. Is there any ...
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Can arch Linux be used for pentesting [closed]
I currently use very much Ubuntu and Kali from the Debian family for penetration testing (Network and Apps) and I want to know if anybody has tested arch Linux or other distros for penetration testing....
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How are short passwords not safe if you limit the number of attempts?
On all web services that require passwords, like gmail, you are asked to set a long password. Like 8 characters or more.
The reason being higher security.
But the same services limit the number of ...
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Why is the Web so complicated? [closed]
Hope it does not sound as a surprise to anyone that modern Web and its security, with the many layers and technologies, is pretty confusing and difficult to learn well. For someone with a good ...
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Is it safe to hash passwords on the users device?
I don't know much about hashing, but I noticed a (relatively reputable) site logging me into my account by sending the url parameter "hash=longStringIAssumeisTheHashOfMyPassword".
The point of ...
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Can someone perform DDoS on my VPS even if it is only accessible through SSH?
Can someone perform DDoS on my VPS even if I have not installed any webserver software like apache, nginx, etc.? Since I have not installed any webserver software, it's not really available to the ...
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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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Do you really need an access token and refresh token?
When using a single page application, in what way is access token + refresh token more secure than a single token in a cookie with SameSite: strict.
Given the browser supports SameSite.
I completely ...
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Bypassing NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID
When I try to access the Openmailbox web site, Google Chrome returns a NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID error. The details state that "openmailbox.org normally uses encryption to protect your information. ...
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Wordpress site request to /wp-includes/Text/Diff/ yields open directory listing
Someone requested my site's (Wordpress/Apache) 'includes' directory:
122.51.0.219 - - [03/Oct/2019:18:36:15] "GET /wp-includes/Text/Diff/ HTTP/1.1" 200 736 "-" "-"
Noticing the 200 response, I hit ...
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Is it possible to gain RCE from Arbitrary file write by an unprivileged user?
I am pentesting a PHP website running on Apache in a Ubuntu server.
I found a vulnerability that allows me to write files to the target system.
I know it's possible to write a php shell to the HTTP ...
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PCI Compliance 8.2.1, 8.2.3, 8.2.4 - Which user passwords is this talking about?
Say you have an e-commerce site that falls under the SAQ A-EP standard, due to extra content on the same page as the iframe that takes the credit card info.
This used to fall under the SAQ A ...
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How effective is Expect-CT against content inspection in an enterprise context?
HPKP was used to ensure that a browser accepts to connect to a site only if the public key he has on file is the one presented by the target site. I saw it as a way to make deep content inspection ...
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Difficulty understanding SOP and CSRF
As said here, a CSRF attack has little to do with SOP. However, on the OWASP CSRF page it is said that
Fortunately, this request will not be executed by modern web browsers thanks to same-origin ...
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How is this allowing me to bypass recaptcha [closed]
I was testing rate limit on the login page of a site. It was captcha protected. I could not even intercept the POST request on burp, so from Google Chrome I looked at the logs and in its POST request, ...
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What tools in SecurityOnion can be used for web application intrusion logfiles in csv format?
I have some web server logs from a breach. Is there a tool in SecurityOnion where I can upload the log files in csv format and have some sort of behavior-driven, static IDS/IPS identify when a breach ...
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How to make wfuzz perform a request to retrieve CSRF token to include in the main request?
How to make wfuzz perform a request to retrieve CSRF token to include in the main request?
I've previously used patator, which includes the options before_url and before_fgrep for performing a ...
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XXE OOB Large File Extraction
Most of examples for extracting files through XXE OOB (Out of Band) sets up a listening HTTP server and listens to incoming request on the URL requested. However, since the URL length is limited to ...
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Why does the file “shell.php.jpg” can execute as a php file but “shell.jpg” cannot?
I am learning about file upload vulnerabilities using DVWA.
After cranking the website's security level to High,
the website checks both the post request's content type & file extension, so in ...
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How to secure embedded code containing REST api call
I am making a Google Analytics like service where you embed generated code into your website and it tracks certain data. I have a backend REST api, but I am not sure how to securely implement a call ...
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How to know what version of extensions are used in joomla-web-site from user's point of view?
The problem is: I'm a user and I'm to find out what version of extensions(modules, plugins and components) are used on Joomla-site.
In simple cases the version is already written,like here:
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Non SSL website with external SSL secured service
I'm working with site that is served via HTTP. Authentication service is external and served via HTTPS. I'm not sure that this isn't security concern that is website is not using SSL.
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When should you give up on attempting a xss on part of a website? [closed]
I'm wondering when do you give up on some type of user input to exploit? What are the things that go through your head and that you check off, that makes you think that the input is properly sanitized?...
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Web Site Access - Port Whitelisting
I am able to access a certain website https://buzzlightyear.acme.com:68080 from within a corporate network (Obviously the default https port 443 has been allowed in the windows firewall of the machine ...
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Identifying a script used for vulnerability scan
The logs of a server are showing a great number of 404 responses in a short time. Apparently somebody used a tool/script to look for known vulnerabilities by combining the server and part of the path ...
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'=' 'OR' SQL Injection Login Bypass Question [duplicate]
I was testing SQLI Cheatsheets on a vulnerable test site.
This particular injection '=' 'OR' seems to work on the login page.
Why does that injection work? What's the back-end SQL code, if I could ...
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Cross Site Scripting href=/\evil
I've seen
<base href=/\evil>
and
<base href=//0>
as a vector to use XSS. Could someone make an example using these vectors and explain me if "/\" is the same as http:// or has some ...
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Websocket Authentication at Opening Handshake Sufficient?
Suppose TLS is used and a session ID was negotiated using standard HTTP mechanisms. With the websocket opening handshake, this session ID is also transferred in the HTTP header.
Suppose the websocket ...
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Published URL File APP.CSS
I am crossing an analysis on a website and while fuzzing and testing I came across the below URL:
https//www.****.**.*/content/css/app.css
Which generated the below output:
/* Minification failed. ...
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How is Instagram detecting me and blocking me each and every time I try to create a new account through different medium?
I have two Instagram accounts, one is mine (Account A) and the other (Account B) is for random images with my pets and a lot of other stuff.
Account B is private and has been from start, recently I ...
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What exploit are these user agents trying to use?
I just looked at my user agent tracking page on my site (archived on Yandex) and I noticed these user agents. I believe they are an attempt to exploit my server (Nginx with PHP). The 1 in front of it ...
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Best practices to prevent logging of LDAP credentials by intermediate apps
I am working on transitioning our project management tool (PMT) to use LDAP authentication instead of native auth that's currently in use.
We also have some internal web-based tools that interface ...
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Is there a way to exploit file_get_contents that has a prepended website?
suppose I have the following code that will display an image. The name of the image is supplied by the user as follows:
https://example.com/image.php?image=cat.jpg
My image.php file contains
$...
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CSRF protection for an email subscription website - are there any risks of having it turned off?
I have a main website with an email subscription form. And my other websites where I have an email capture form. A user enters their email on those website and via POST he's redirected to the main ...
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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, ...
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Does limiting the length of a password help prevent DoS attacks? [duplicate]
I was told that you can DoS a server with unlimited password length because of the time that it would take to hash it. But isn't the password hashed on the client's side before leaving the user's ...
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what are steps to do in order to secure my appli web [closed]
I'm asked to secure an appli web and I don't know really which steps I can follow to secure my appli web.
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Is it possible to contract a virus on Ubuntu/Debian from an Apache Nutch web crawl?
For the fourth time now I have contracted a virus while doing a large web crawl on webmd.com. I'm not certain that this is where the virus is coming from but I don't see what else it could be.
Is it ...
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Is it ok to send plain text credentials in a XHR GET request?
When testing my api server, I often requested the website http://domain.tld/api/?username=john&password=123456 to test things and after a while of course, my browser would autocomplete the url, ...
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How do I verify that a user on a remote system has root access?
Let's say an anonymous user somewhere on the internet claims that he or she is the admin/root user of the system/server behind some public IP Address.
I was thinking, what can a root user do that a ...
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How to detect website active routes?
I'm building a website using Laravel and I'm just thinking about security.
I would like to know if there is a way for attacker to detect all active web routes for a website ?
For example:
http://...
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What scenario does CORS protect against?
My understanding of the same origin policy is that it prevents scripts from making requests to resources outside of the domain from which they originated. One motivation of this is to prevent a ...
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What kind of redirect of websites is this? [closed]
Some websites can redirect you, but they're not using http 301 or 302. After that the url will be changed and you can't go back to the previous page using your web browser's back button. For example, ...
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Securing Flask admin pages
We've been developing a Flask app for a customer and a part of the agreement was that "customer admins" would be allowed to access Flask admin page to manage users, roles and business entities.
The ...
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Does an employer see if you try to access a blocked site? [duplicate]
Today while browsing on my mobile phone connected to my employer's wifi, I clicked on the link to a tumblr page. I then got an error message saying the web filter had blocked the page deeming it ...
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How to find no of columns using sql injection
I'm new to web penetration testing and when I tried to test a website, I found that when I entered ' in the text box, I would get the following error:
OraOLEDB error '80004005'
ORA-01756: quoted ...
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Webauthn and TLS channel binding
my understanding is that webauthn supports a variety of authentication schemes --not necessarily FIDO2/CTAP ; is that true? if so what is the api at webauthn that provides the hook?
TLS channel ...
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Is telegram SMS login secure?
TL;DR: Can
1) A random hacker access my telegram account by entering my phone number on the official web.telegram.org authentication portal and hijhacking the SMS code they send? or
2) A "telegram ...
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Does a client certificate identify the owner to unrelated websites?
If I install a client certificate in my browser, which websites can see any information about this client certificate or the CA that issued it?
I once visited an ssl diagnostic site that immediately ...
