# Awesome Web Security [](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)
> 🐶 Curated list of Web Security materials and resources.
Needless to say, most of websites on-line are suffered from various type of bugs, which might eventually lead to vulnerabilities. Why would this happen so often? Many factors can be involved, including misconfiguration, shortage of engineers' security skills, and etc. Therefore, here is the curated list of Web Security materials and resources for learning the cutting edge penetrating techniques.
*Please read the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) before contributing.*
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* [C.XSS Guide](https://excess-xss.com/) - Comprehensive tutorial on cross-site scripting by [@JakobKallin](https://github.com/JakobKallin) and [Irene Lobo Valbuena](https://www.linkedin.com/in/irenelobovalbuena/).
* [CSV Injection -> Meterpreter on Pornhub](https://news.webamooz.com/wp-content/uploads/bot/offsecmag/147.pdf) - Written by [Andy](https://blog.zsec.uk/).
* [The Absurdly Underestimated Dangers of CSV Injection](http://georgemauer.net/2017/10/07/csv-injection.html) - Written by [George Mauer](http://georgemauer.net/).
* [SQL Injection Cheat Sheet](https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-security/sql-injection-cheat-sheet/) - Written by [@netsparker](https://twitter.com/netsparker).
* [HQL : Hyperinsane Query Language (or how to access the whole SQL API within a HQL injection ?)](https://www.synacktiv.com/ressources/hql2sql_sstic_2015_en.pdf) - Written by [@_m0bius](https://twitter.com/_m0bius).
* [ORM2Pwn: Exploiting injections in Hibernate ORM](https://www.slideshare.net/0ang3el/orm2pwn-exploiting-injections-in-hibernate-orm) - Written by [Mikhail Egorov](https://0ang3el.blogspot.tw/).
* [ORM Injection](https://www.slideshare.net/simone.onofri/orm-injection) - Written by [Simone Onofri](https://onofri.org/).
* [Advisory: Java/Python FTP Injections Allow for Firewall Bypass](http://blog.blindspotsecurity.com/2017/02/advisory-javapython-ftp-injections.html) - Written by [Timothy Morgan](https://plus.google.com/105917618099766831589).
* [SMTP over XXE − how to send emails using Java's XML parser](https://shiftordie.de/blog/2017/02/18/smtp-over-xxe/) - Written by [Alexander Klink](https://shiftordie.de/).
* [SSRF bible. Cheatsheet](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v1TkWZtrhzRLy0bYXBcdLUedXGb9njTNIJXa3u9akHM/edit) - Written by [@Wallarm](https://twitter.com/wallarm).
* [Rails 動態樣板路徑的風險](http://devco.re/blog/2015/07/24/the-vulnerability-of-dynamic-render-paths-in-rails/) - Written by [Shaolin](http://devco.re/blog/author/shaolin/).
* [XSS without HTML: Client-Side Template Injection with AngularJS](http://blog.portswigger.net/2016/01/xss-without-html-client-side-template.html) - Written by [Gareth Heyes](https://www.blogger.com/profile/10856178524811553475).
* [DOM based Angular sandbox escapes](http://blog.portswigger.net/2017/05/dom-based-angularjs-sandbox-escapes.html) - Written by [@garethheyes](https://twitter.com/garethheyes)
* [PENETRATION TESTING AWS STORAGE: KICKING THE S3 BUCKET](https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/penetration-testing/penetration-testing-aws-storage/) - Written by Dwight Hohnstein from [Rhino Security Labs](https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/).
* [A penetration tester’s guide to sub-domain enumeration](https://blog.appsecco.com/a-penetration-testers-guide-to-sub-domain-enumeration-7d842d5570f6) - Written by [Bharath](https://blog.appsecco.com/@yamakira_).
* [Applied Crypto Hardening](https://bettercrypto.org/static/applied-crypto-hardening.pdf) - Written by [The bettercrypto.org Team](https://bettercrypto.org/).
* [CSP: bypassing form-action with reflected XSS](https://labs.detectify.com/2016/04/04/csp-bypassing-form-action-with-reflected-xss/) - Written by [Detectify Labs](https://labs.detectify.com/).
* [浅谈json参数解析对waf绕过的影响](https://xianzhi.aliyun.com/forum/read/553.html) - Written by [doggy](https://xianzhi.aliyun.com/forum/u.php?uid=1723895737531437).
* [Airbnb – When Bypassing JSON Encoding, XSS Filter, WAF, CSP, and Auditor turns into Eight Vulnerabilities](https://buer.haus/2017/03/08/airbnb-when-bypassing-json-encoding-xss-filter-waf-csp-and-auditor-turns-into-eight-vulnerabilities/) - Written by [@Brett Buerhaus](https://twitter.com/bbuerhaus).
* [JavaScript MVC and Templating Frameworks](http://www.slideshare.net/x00mario/jsmvcomfg-to-sternly-look-at-javascript-mvc-and-templating-frameworks) - Written by [Mario Heiderich](http://www.slideshare.net/x00mario).
* [Yahoo Bug Bounty: Chaining 3 Minor Issues To Takeover Flickr Accounts](http://blog.mish.re/index.php/2017/04/29/yahoo-bug-bounty-chaining-3-minor-issues-to-takeover-flickr-accounts/) - Written by [Mishre](http://blog.mish.re/).
* [Exploiting Node.js deserialization bug for Remote Code Execution](https://opsecx.com/index.php/2017/02/08/exploiting-node-js-deserialization-bug-for-remote-code-execution/) - Written by [OpSecX](https://opsecx.com/index.php/author/ajinabraham/).
* [eval长度限制绕过 && PHP5.6新特性](https://www.leavesongs.com/PHP/bypass-eval-length-restrict.html) - Written by [PHITHON](https://www.leavesongs.com/).
* [PHP垃圾回收机制UAF漏洞分析](http://www.freebuf.com/vuls/122938.html) - Written by [ph1re](http://www.freebuf.com/author/ph1re).
* [DRUPAL 7.X SERVICES MODULE UNSERIALIZE() TO RCE](https://www.ambionics.io/blog/drupal-services-module-rce) - Written by [Ambionics Security](https://www.ambionics.io/).
* [How we exploited a remote code execution vulnerability in math.js](https://capacitorset.github.io/mathjs/) - Written by [@capacitorset](https://github.com/capacitorset).
* [GitHub Enterprise Remote Code Execution](http://exablue.de/blog/2017-03-15-github-enterprise-remote-code-execution.html) - Written by [@iblue](https://github.com/iblue).
* [How I Chained 4 vulnerabilities on GitHub Enterprise, From SSRF Execution Chain to RCE!](http://blog.orange.tw/2017/07/how-i-chained-4-vulnerabilities-on.html) - Written by [Orange](http://blog.orange.tw/).
* [How i Hacked into a PayPal's Server - Unrestricted File Upload to Remote Code Execution](http://blog.pentestbegins.com/2017/07/21/hacking-into-paypal-server-remote-code-execution-2017/) - Written by [Vikas Anil Sharma](http://blog.pentestbegins.com/).
* [ECMAScript 6 from an Attacker's Perspective - Breaking Frameworks, Sandboxes, and everything else](http://www.slideshare.net/x00mario/es6-en) - Written by [Mario Heiderich](http://www.slideshare.net/x00mario).
](https://medium.com/@marin_m/how-i-found-a-5-000-google-maps-xss-by-fiddling-with-protobuf-963ee0d9caff#.u50nrzhas) - Written by [Marin Moulinier](https://medium.com/@marin_m).
* [DON'T TRUST THE DOM: BYPASSING XSS MITIGATIONS VIA SCRIPT GADGETS](https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Lekies-Dont-Trust-The-DOM-Bypassing-XSS-Mitigations-Via-Script-Gadgets.pdf) - Written by [Sebastian Lekies](https://twitter.com/slekies), [Krzysztof Kotowicz](https://twitter.com/kkotowicz), and [Eduardo Vela](https://twitter.com/sirdarckcat).
* [DOM XSS – auth.uber.com](http://stamone-bug-bounty.blogspot.tw/2017/10/dom-xss-auth_14.html) - Written by [StamOne_](http://stamone-bug-bounty.blogspot.tw/).
* [屌智硬之mysql不用逗号注入](http://www.jinglingshu.org/?p=2220) - Written by [jinglingshu](http://www.jinglingshu.org/?p=2220).
* [见招拆招：绕过WAF继续SQL注入常用方法](http://www.freebuf.com/articles/web/36683.html) - Written by [mikey](http://www.freebuf.com/author/mikey).
* [MySQL Error Based SQL Injection Using EXP](https://www.exploit-db.com/docs/37953.pdf) - Written by [@osandamalith](https://twitter.com/osandamalith).
* [SQL injection in an UPDATE query - a bug bounty story!](http://zombiehelp54.blogspot.jp/2017/02/sql-injection-in-update-query-bug.html) - Written by [Zombiehelp54](http://zombiehelp54.blogspot.jp/).
* [GitHub Enterprise SQL Injection](http://blog.orange.tw/2017/01/bug-bounty-github-enterprise-sql-injection.html) - Written by [Orange](http://blog.orange.tw/).
* [GraphQL NoSQL Injection Through JSON Types](https://medium.com/@east5th/graphql-nosql-injection-through-json-types-a1a0a310c759) - Written by [@east5th](https://medium.com/@east5th).
* [XML Out-Of-Band Data Retrieval](https://media.blackhat.com/eu-13/briefings/Osipov/bh-eu-13-XML-data-osipov-slides.pdf) - Written by [@a66at](https://twitter.com/a66at) and Alexey Osipov.
* [XXE OOB exploitation at Java 1.7+](http://lab.onsec.ru/2014/06/xxe-oob-exploitation-at-java-17.html) - Written by [Ivan Novikov](http://lab.onsec.ru/).
* [A New Era of SSRF - Exploiting URL Parser in Trending Programming Languages!](https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-17/thursday/us-17-Tsai-A-New-Era-Of-SSRF-Exploiting-URL-Parser-In-Trending-Programming-Languages.pdf) - Written by [Orange](http://blog.orange.tw/).
* [Java/Python FTP Injections Allow for Firewall Bypass](http://blog.blindspotsecurity.com/2017/02/advisory-javapython-ftp-injections.html) - Written by [Timothy Morgan](https://plus.google.com/105917618099766831589).
* [URL Hacking - 前端猥琐流](http://php.ph/wydrops/drops/URL%20Hacking%20-%20前端猥琐流.pdf) - Written by [0x_Jin](http://xssec.lofter.com/).
* [Phishing with Unicode Domains](https://www.xudongz.com/blog/2017/idn-phishing/) - Written by [Xudong Zheng](https://www.xudongz.com/).
* [Unicode Domains are bad and you should feel bad for supporting them](https://www.vgrsec.com/post20170219.html) - Written by [VRGSEC](https://www.vgrsec.com/).
* [How I hacked Google’s bug tracking system itself for $15,600 in bounties](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/messing-with-the-google-buganizer-system-for-15-600-in-bounties-58f86cc9f9a5) - Written by [@alex.birsan](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/@alex.birsan).
* [Some Tricks From My Secret Group](https://www.leavesongs.com/SHARE/some-tricks-from-my-secret-group.html) - Written by [PHITHON](https://www.leavesongs.com/).
* [CTF比赛总是输？你还差点Tricks!](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Cx0vI2Mzy0zwdTrgic3S3TwGMCpH-QhMUdHU1r3AYfI/edit#slide=id.g35f391192_065) - Written by [PHITHON](https://www.leavesongs.com/).
* [隱匿的攻擊之-Domain Fronting](https://evi1cg.me/archives/Domain_Fronting.html) - Written by [Evi1cg](https://evi1cg.me/).
* [Uber Bug Bounty: Gaining Access To An Internal Chat System](http://blog.mish.re/index.php/2017/09/06/uber-bug-bounty-gaining-access-to-an-internal-chat-system/) - Written by [MISHRE](http://blog.mish.re/).
* [Inducing DNS Leaks in Onion Web Services](https://github.com/epidemics-scepticism/writing/blob/master/onion-dns-leaks.md) - Written by [@epidemics-scepticism](https://github.com/epidemics-scepticism).
* [Browser UI Security 技术白皮书](http://xlab.tencent.com/cn/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/browser-ui-security-whitepaper.pdf) - Written by [腾讯玄武实验室](http://xlab.tencent.com/).
* [JSON hijacking for the modern web](http://blog.portswigger.net/2016/11/json-hijacking-for-modern-web.html) - Written by [portswigger](https://portswigger.net/).
* [IE11 Information disclosure - local file detection](https://www.facebook.com/ExploitWareLabs/photos/a.361854183878462.84544.338832389513975/1378579648872572/?type=3&theater) - Written by James Lee.
* [SOP bypass / UXSS – Stealing Credentials Pretty Fast (Edge)](https://www.brokenbrowser.com/sop-bypass-uxss-stealing-credentials-pretty-fast/) - Written by [Manuel](https://twitter.com/magicmac2000).
* [ブラウザの脆弱性とそのインパクト](https://speakerdeck.com/nishimunea/burauzafalsecui-ruo-xing-tosofalseinpakuto) - Written by [Muneaki Nishimura](https://speakerdeck.com/nishimunea) and [Masato Kinugawa](https://twitter.com/kinugawamasato).
### Backend (core of Browser implementation, and often refers to C or C++ part)
* [First Step to Browser Exploitation](http://mashirogod.dothome.co.kr/index.php/2017/01/07/first-step-to-browser-exploitation/) - Written by [Brian Pak](http://mashirogod.dothome.co.kr/).
* [Attacking JavaScript Engines - A case study of JavaScriptCore and CVE-2016-4622](http://www.phrack.org/papers/attacking_javascript_engines.html) - Written by [phrack@saelo.net](phrack@saelo.net).
* [Three roads lead to Rome](http://blogs.360.cn/360safe/2016/11/29/three-roads-lead-to-rome-2/) - Written by [Luke Viruswalker](http://blogs.360.cn/360safe/author/xsecure/).
* [FROM CRASH TO EXPLOIT: CVE-2015-6086 – OUT OF BOUND READ/ASLR BYPASS](http://payatu.com/from-crash-to-exploit/) - Written by [payatu](http://payatu.com/).
* [prowler](https://github.com/Alfresco/prowler) - Tool for AWS security assessment, auditing and hardening by [@Alfresco](https://github.com/Alfresco).
* [FOCA](https://github.com/ElevenPaths/FOCA) - FOCA (Fingerprinting Organizations with Collected Archives) is a tool used mainly to find metadata and hidden information in the documents its scans by [ElevenPaths](https://www.elevenpaths.com/index.html).
* [xray](https://github.com/evilsocket/xray) - XRay is a tool for recon, mapping and OSINT gathering from public networks by [@evilsocket](https://github.com/evilsocket).
* [Shodan](https://www.shodan.io/) - Shodan is the world's first search engine for Internet-connected devices by [@shodanhq](https://twitter.com/shodanhq).
* [Censys](https://censys.io/) - Censys is a search engine that allows computer scientists to ask questions about the devices and networks that compose the Internet by [University of Michigan](https://umich.edu/).
* [urlscan.io](https://urlscan.io/) - Service which analyses websites and the resources they request by [@heipei](https://twitter.com/heipei).
* [raven](https://github.com/0x09AL/raven) - raven is a Linkedin information gathering tool that can be used by pentesters to gather information about an organization employees using Linkedin by [@0x09AL](https://github.com/0x09AL).
* [ReconDog](https://github.com/UltimateHackers/ReconDog) - Recon Dog is an all in one tool for all your basic information gathering needs by [@UltimateHackers](https://github.com/UltimateHackers).
* [AQUATONE](https://github.com/michenriksen/aquatone) - Tool for Domain Flyovers by [@michenriksen](https://github.com/michenriksen).
* [domain_analyzer](https://github.com/eldraco/domain_analyzer) - Analyze the security of any domain by finding all the information possible by [@eldraco](https://github.com/eldraco).
* [VirusTotal domain information](https://www.virustotal.com/en/documentation/searching/#getting-domain-information) - Searching for domain information by [VirusTotal](https://www.virustotal.com/).
* [Certificate Transparency](https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency) - Google's Certificate Transparency project fixes several structural flaws in the SSL certificate system by [@google](https://github.com/google).
* [Certificate Search](https://crt.sh/) - Enter an Identity (Domain Name, Organization Name, etc), a Certificate Fingerprint (SHA-1 or SHA-256) or a crt.sh ID to search certificate(s) by [@crtsh](https://github.com/crtsh).
* [charsetinspect](https://github.com/hack-all-the-things/charsetinspect) - Script that inspects multi-byte character sets looking for characters with specific user-defined properties by [@hack-all-the-things](https://github.com/hack-all-the-things).
* [IPObfuscator](https://github.com/OsandaMalith/IPObfuscator) - Simple too to convert the IP to a DWORD IP by [@OsandaMalith](https://github.com/OsandaMalith).
* [wpscan](https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan) - WPScan is a black box WordPress vulnerability scanner by [@wpscanteam](https://github.com/wpscanteam).
* [JoomlaScan](https://github.com/drego85/JoomlaScan) - Free software to find the components installed in Joomla CMS, built out of the ashes of Joomscan by [@drego85](https://github.com/drego85).
* [XSStrike](https://github.com/UltimateHackers/XSStrike) - XSStrike is a program which can fuzz and bruteforce parameters for XSS. It can also detect and bypass WAFs by [@UltimateHackers](https://github.com/UltimateHackers).
* [xssor2](https://github.com/evilcos/xssor2) - XSS'OR - Hack with JavaScript by [@evilcos](https://github.com/evilcos).
* [Burp Suite](https://portswigger.net/burp/) - Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications by [portswigger](https://portswigger.net/).
* [tqlmap](https://github.com/epinna/tplmap) - Code and Server-Side Template Injection Detection and Exploitation Tool by [@epinna](https://github.com/epinna).
* [HTTPLeaks](https://github.com/cure53/HTTPLeaks) - All possible ways, a website can leak HTTP requests by [@cure53](https://github.com/cure53).
* [dvcs-ripper](https://github.com/kost/dvcs-ripper) - Rip web accessible (distributed) version control systems: SVN/GIT/HG... by [@kost](https://github.com/kost).
* [DVCS-Pillage](https://github.com/evilpacket/DVCS-Pillage) - Pillage web accessible GIT, HG and BZR repositories by [@evilpacket](https://github.com/evilpacket).
* [sqlchop](https://github.com/chaitin/sqlchop) - [DEPRECATED] Novel SQL injection detection engine built on top of SQL tokenizing and syntax analysis by [chaitin](http://chaitin.com).
* [retire.js](https://github.com/RetireJS/retire.js) - Scanner detecting the use of JavaScript libraries with known vulnerabilities by [@RetireJS](https://github.com/RetireJS).
* [malware-jail](https://github.com/HynekPetrak/malware-jail) - Sandbox for semi-automatic Javascript malware analysis, deobfuscation and payload extraction by [@HynekPetrak](https://github.com/HynekPetrak).
* [js-xss](https://github.com/leizongmin/js-xss) - Sanitize untrusted HTML (to prevent XSS) with a configuration specified by a Whitelist by [@leizongmin](https://github.com/leizongmin).
* [plasma](https://github.com/plasma-disassembler/plasma) - Plasma is an interactive disassembler for x86/ARM/MIPS by [@plasma-disassembler](https://github.com/plasma-disassembler).
* [radare2](https://github.com/radare/radare2) - Unix-like reverse engineering framework and commandline tools by [@radare](https://github.com/radare).
* [Iaitō](https://github.com/hteso/iaito) - Qt and C++ GUI for radare2 reverse engineering framework by [@hteso](https://github.com/hteso).
* [CyberChef](https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef) - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis - by [@GCHQ](https://github.com/gchq).
* [haveibeenpwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/) - Check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach by [Troy Hunt](https://www.troyhunt.com/).
* [70 SECURITY TEAM Social Engineering Data](http://s.70sec.com/) - 70 SECURITY TEAM 社工库 by [70 Security Team](http://70sec.com/).
* [@h3xstream](https://twitter.com/h3xstream/) - Security Researcher, interested in web security, crypto, pentest, static analysis but most of all, samy is my hero.
* [BadLibrary](https://github.com/SecureSkyTechnology/BadLibrary) - vulnerable web application for training - Written by [@SecureSkyTechnology](https://github.com/SecureSkyTechnology).
* [prompt(1) to win](http://prompt.ml/) - Complex 16-Level XSS Challenge held in summer 2014 (+4 Hidden Levels) - Written by [@cure53](https://github.com/cure53).
* [ModSecurity / OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set](https://www.netnea.com/cms/apache-tutorials/) - Series of tutorials to install, configure and tune ModSecurity and the Core Rule Set - Written by [@ChrFolini](https://twitter.com/ChrFolini).
* [awesome-bug-bounty](https://github.com/djadmin/awesome-bug-bounty) - Comprehensive curated list of available Bug Bounty & Disclosure Programs and write-ups by [@djadmin](https://github.com/djadmin).
* [bug-bounty-reference](https://github.com/ngalongc/bug-bounty-reference) - List of bug bounty write-up that is categorized by the bug nature by [@ngalongc](https://github.com/ngalongc).
* [Google VRP and Unicorns](https://sites.google.com/site/bughunteruniversity/behind-the-scenes/presentations/google-vrp-and-unicorns) - Written by [Daniel Stelter-Gliese](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-stelter-gliese-170a70a2/).
* [Brute Forcing Your Facebook Email and Phone Number](http://pwndizzle.blogspot.jp/2014/02/brute-forcing-your-facebook-email-and.html) - Written by [PwnDizzle](http://pwndizzle.blogspot.jp/).
* [Hunting for Web Shells](https://www.tenable.com/blog/hunting-for-web-shells) - Written by [Jacob Baines](https://www.tenable.com/profile/jacob-baines).
* [The Definitive Security Data Science and Machine Learning Guide](http://www.covert.io/the-definitive-security-datascience-and-machinelearning-guide/) - Written by JASON TROS.
* [The Art of Subdomain Enumeration](https://blog.sweepatic.com/art-of-subdomain-enumeration/) - Written by [Patrik Hudak](https://blog.sweepatic.com/author/patrik/).
* [A glimpse into GitHub's Bug Bounty workflow](https://githubengineering.com/githubs-bug-bounty-workflow/) - Written by [@gregose](https://github.com/gregose).
* [暗网系列之：利用Dark Web Report + EyeWitness+ TorGhost +Docker，自动化获取暗网站点的信息](http://www.mottoin.com/106687.html) - Written by [鹰小编](http://www.mottoin.com/user/ying/).
* [Hacking Cryptocurrency Miners with OSINT Techniques](https://medium.com/@s3yfullah/hacking-cryptocurrency-miners-with-osint-techniques-677bbb3e0157) - Written by [@s3yfullah](https://medium.com/@s3yfullah).
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