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From HTTP fundamentals to business-logic exploitation. The complete path.

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Web Application Penetration Testing Intermediate Free

Module 24 · WebSocket Security

Why this module exists. Real-time chat, live trading dashboards, multiplayer games, collaborative editors — all run on WebSockets. And every web pentester I know has found at least one critical WebSocket bug because developers treat the protocol as “HTTP-but-faster” without realising the security model is fundamentally different. How WebSockets differ from HTTP Single connection, bidirectional […]

Apr 27, 2026 30 min Open
Web Application Penetration Testing Intermediate Free

Module 21 · NoSQL Injection

Why this module exists. Developers who learned about SQL injection often think NoSQL databases are safe by design. They aren’t — they have different injection patterns, often with even fewer guardrails. MongoDB powers half of Indian Node.js startups; nearly every one I’ve audited had at least one NoSQLi exposure. How NoSQL queries differ from SQL […]

Apr 27, 2026 30 min Open
Web Application Penetration Testing Intermediate Free

Module 27 · Session Management — Beyond Cookies

Why this module exists. Every web app makes session decisions in the first month of development that they regret 18 months later. The wrong choice between cookies and tokens, the wrong refresh strategy, the wrong idle timeout — each is technical debt that becomes a breach footnote. This module is the playbook for getting it […]

Apr 27, 2026 30 min Open
Web Application Penetration Testing Intermediate Free

Module 3 · GraphQL Security

Introspection, depth/complexity attacks, aliasing brute force, mutation safety, persisted queries, subscriptions.

Apr 22, 2026 90 min Open
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Module 12 · File Upload Vulnerabilities

File upload features are everywhere — profile pictures, document uploads, attachments, imports. They’re also one of the most frequently-exploited vulnerability classes, capable of escalating from “user” to “RCE” in one click. This module covers the attack patterns and the layered defences. The attack surface Attacker uploads a file (malicious) Server saves file to disk Server […]

Apr 19, 2026 60 min Open
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Module 11 · Cross-Site Request Forgery Deep Dive

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) tricks a user’s browser into submitting authenticated actions to a trusted site. Once ubiquitous, modern browsers and frameworks have made the baseline defence far stronger. But CSRF still appears — especially in legacy APIs and apps that mishandle authentication state. The core attack User is logged into bank.com (browser holds session […]

Apr 19, 2026 60 min Open
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Module 6 · IDOR & Authorization Bypass

Horizontal and vertical IDOR, mass assignment, multi-tenant boundary violations, GraphQL authorization. The highest-yield SaaS bug class. Pro module.

Apr 19, 2026 90 min Open
Web Application Penetration Testing Intermediate Free

Module 5 · Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in 2026

Reflected, stored, and DOM-based XSS in 2026. Filter bypasses, CSP deep-dive, and the real impact beyond alert(1). Pro module.

Apr 19, 2026 90 min Open
Web Application Penetration Testing Intermediate Free

Module 4 · SQL Injection in 2026

How SQLi works at the query level, UNION-based extraction, blind SQLi (boolean and time), out-of-band exfiltration, NoSQL injection, sqlmap practice.

Apr 19, 2026 120 min Open
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