Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2017 - Voting Open

James Kettle

Director of Research

@albinowax

• Published: 15 August 2018 at 13:50 UTC

• Updated: 31 December 2018 at 09:30 UTC

The nominations are in for the Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2017, so it's time to start the community vote. We're inviting everyone to select their personal top 10, and the votes will be used to build a shortlist of 15 techniques for the final selection stage.

So, go ahead and browse through the candidates, load up the voting form, and place your vote!

Update: the results are now in!

Here are the candidates (in no particular order):

• How I hacked hundreds of companies through their helpdesk
• Web Cache Deception Attack
• GitHubs post-CSP journey
• Request encoding to bypass web application firewalls
• Binary Webshell Through OPcache in PHP 7
• A deep dive into AWS S3 access controls taking full control over your assets
• CVE-2018-5175: Universal CSP strict-dynamic bypass in Firefox
• HaXmas: The True Meaning(s) of Metasploit
• The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Safari in Client-Side Attacks
• Modern Alchemy: Turning XSS into RCE
• My Sweet Innocence Exposed - Eleven Reasons why we will all miss you, e
• Dont Trust The DOM: Bypassing XSS Mitigations Via Script Gadgets
• From Markdown to RCE in Atom
• The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection
• Rare ASP.NET request validation bypass using request encoding
• Password Not Provided - Compromising Any Flurry Users Account
• $10k host header
• The .io Error - Taking Control of All .io Domains With a Targeted Registration
• Pivoting from blind SSRF to RCE with HashiCorp Consul
• Exploiting the unexploitable with lesser known browser tricks
• Why CSP Should be carefully crafted: Twitter XSS CSP Bypass 
• Text/Plain Considered Harmful
• Autobinding vulns and Spring MVC
• Stealing Messenger.com Login Nonces
• Hacking Slack using postMessage and WebSocket-reconnect to steal your precious token
• Cloudflare Reverse Proxies are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
• The Attack of the Alerts and the Zombie Script (IE)
• Shopware 5.3.3: PHP Object Instantiation to Blind XXE
• Assorted WordPress DB prepare exploits
• A New Era of SSRF - Exploiting URL Parser in Trending Programming Languages!
• Cure53 Browser Security Whitepaper
• Friday The 13th JSON Attacks
• X41 Browser Security Whitepaper
• How I used google dorks to find 0-days
• MITM Attacks on HTTPS: Another Perspective
• Google Maps XSS (by fiddling with Protobuf)
• Advanced Flash Vulnerabilities

Please proceed to the voting form to cast your vote.

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