Episode 26: Client-side Quirks & Browser Hacks

Episode 26: Client-side Quirks & Browser Hacks

In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast, we're back with Joel, fresh (haha) off of back-to-back live hack events in London and Seoul. We compare the different vibes of each LHE, then we dive into the technical thick of it, and talk web browsers, XSS vectors, new tools, CVSS 4.

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Shoutout to YTCracker for the awesome intro music!

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Hunting for NGINX alias traversals in the wild

PortSwigger Tweet

Soroush's Follow-up

Tweet about magic math element

<22 weird XSS behavior

Lupin’s follow-up

Patch diffing

Changes to CVSS 4.0

Ask FIRSTdotORG what's going on

Jsluise

JS import() behavior

'JavaScript for Hackers'

CSP Evaluator:

Dom Clobbering

HTML Injection Cheat Sheet

Gareth Heyes website/game

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Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:04:10) LHE Vibes

(00:07:45) "Hunting for NGINX alias traversals in the wild"

(00:12:30) Payouts in BB programs

(00:16:05) New XSS vectors and popovers

(00:24:15) The "magical math element" in Firefox

(00:27:15) LiveOverflow on HTML parsing quirks

(00:32:10) Mr. Tux Racer, Woocommerce, and WordPress

(00:40:00) Changes in the CVSS 4 draft spec

(00:45:00) TomNomNom's new tool Jsluise

(00:51:15) JavaScript's import function & "JavaScript for Hackers"

(01:09:15) Prototype pollution & DOM clobbering

(01:18:10) Base tags and CSS Games

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