Episode 128: New Research in Blind SSRF and Self-XSS, and How to Architect Source-code Review AI Bots
Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast26 Kesä 2025

Episode 128: New Research in Blind SSRF and Self-XSS, and How to Architect Source-code Review AI Bots

Episode 128: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we talking Blind SSRF and Self-XSS, as well as Reversing massive minified JS with AI and a wild Google Logo Ligature Bug

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====== This Week in Bug Bounty ======

BitK's "Payload plz" challenge at LeHack

====== Resources ======

Make Self-XSS Great Again

Novel SSRF Technique Involving HTTP Redirect Loops

Surf - Escalate your SSRF vulnerabilities on Modern Cloud Environments

Gecko: Intent to prototype: Framebusting Intervention

Conducting smarter intelligences than me: new orchestras

Mandark

Lumentis

jscollab

Google Logo Ligature Bug

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:03:55) Self-XSS and credentialless iframe

(00:16:50) Novel SSRF Technique Involving HTTP Redirect Loops

(00:25:02) Framebusting

(00:29:13) Reversing massive minified JS with AI

(00:53:12) Google Logo Ligature Bug

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