Episode 163: Best Technical Takeaways from Portswigger Top 10 2025
Episode 163: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast It’s that time of year again! We’re looking at the Portswigger Research list of top 10 web hacking techniques of 2025.
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====== Resources ======
Parser Differentials: When Interpretation Becomes a Vulnerability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_KVLXzxH8
XSS-Leak: Leaking Cross-Origin Redirects
https://blog.babelo.xyz/posts/cross-site-subdomain-leak/
Playing with HTTP/2 CONNECT
https://blog.flomb.net/posts/http2connect/
Next.js, cache, and chains: the stale elixir
https://zhero-web-sec.github.io/research-and-things/nextjs-cache-and-chains-the-stale-elixir
SOAPwn: Pwning .NET Framework Apps Through HTTP Client Proxies And WSDL
https://watchtowr.com/wp-content/uploads/SOAPwnwatchtowr_soappwn-research-whitepaper_10-12-2025.pdf
Cross-Site ETag Length Leak
https://blog.arkark.dev/2025/12/26/etag-length-leak
Lost in Translation: Exploiting Unicode Normalization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETB2w-f3pM4
ORM Leaking More Than You Joined For
https://www.elttam.com/blog/leaking-more-than-you-joined-for/
Novel SSRF Technique Involving HTTP Redirect Loops
https://slcyber.io/research-center/novel-ssrf-technique-involving-http-redirect-loops/
Successful Errors: New Code Injection and SSTI Techniques
https://github.com/vladko312/Research_Successful_Errors
====== Timestamps ======
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:02:33) Parser Differentials: When Interpretation Becomes a Vulnerability
(00:11:02) XSS-Leak: Leaking Cross-Origin Redirects
(00:18:25) Playing with HTTP/2 CONNECT
(00:22:10) Next.js, cache, and chains: the stale elixir
(00:29:15) SOAPwn: Pwning .NET Framework Apps Through HTTP Client Proxies And WSDL
(00:34:27) Cross-Site ETag Length Leak
(00:41:47) Lost in Translation: Exploiting Unicode Normalization
(00:47:27) ORM Leaking More Than You Joined For
(00:54:07) Novel SSRF Technique Involving HTTP Redirect Loops
(00:58:40) Successful Errors: New Code Injection and SSTI Techniques
