Xss

Cross-site scripting has been broken for as long as the web has existed. In 2026, it still shows up everywhere — modern SPAs, legacy enterprise apps, AI-generated frontends with no output encoding, CMS platforms with half-baked sanitization. XSS is the kind of vulnerability that’s “easy” to dismiss until you see a session token extracted from a banking app or a phishing payload delivered from a trusted domain. This guide covers everything: how XSS works, the three main categories, detection with Burp and manual techniques, exploitation for real impact, filter bypass when WAFs and sanitizers are in the way, and DOM-based XSS which most people still get wrong. ...

Web application pentesting is where most red teamers spend the majority of their billable hours. It’s also where a huge chunk of real-world breaches happen — not through exotic exploits, but through the same OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities that have existed for decades. This guide covers the full methodology: reconnaissance, mapping the attack surface, exploiting common vulnerabilities, and reporting findings. Whether you’re doing your first web pentest or sharpening your methodology for bug bounty, this is the process. ...