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Client Side Path Traversal (CSPT) Bug Bounty Reports and Techniques

~14 min read · January 24, 2025 (Updated: January 24, 2025) · Free: Yes

Over the past year, CSPT bugs have gained significant attention, with numerous blogs and...

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Komorebi—Another Japanese Word that English Needs

~2 min read · November 12, 2021 (Updated: March 13, 2024) · Free: No

Because "sunlight filtering through trees" does not express the same feeling

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TryHackMe | Django: CVE-2025-64459 | WriteUp

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T3CH

· ~2 min read · November 19, 2025 (Updated: November 20, 2025) · Free: No

Explore and learn about the Django CVE-2025-64459 vulnerability

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One Random Recon, One Real Bounty

InfoSec Write-ups

InfoSec Write-ups

· ~4 min read · April 13, 2025 (Updated: May 7, 2025) · Free: No

From countless dead ends to a single Swagger UI payload — the unexpected breakthrough that...

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Bug Bounty Hunting 101: "Choosing the Perfect Target"

~3 min read · January 11, 2023 (Updated: January 19, 2023) · Free: No

Are you tired of constantly coming up empty-handed in your bug bounty hunting endeavors? Are you...

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My First Bug Bounty: How I Earned $1,000 With One Simple Step

~4 min read · May 17, 2025 (Updated: June 1, 2025) · Free: Yes

Bug bounty hunting had been on my radar for a while. After reading dozens of write-ups and diving...

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The Bug Hunter's Guide to Privilege Escalation: 5 Real-World Examples and How to Leverage Them

~3 min read · January 11, 2023 (Updated: January 19, 2023) · Free: No

As a bug hunter, discovering privilege escalation vulnerabilities is a valuable and lucrative...

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Modern IIS Penetration Testing: A Complete Attacker's Walkthrough

~7 min read · April 11, 2026 (Updated: April 11, 2026) · Free: No

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From $0 to Your First Bug Bounty: A Beginner's 14-Day Roadmap (2026, No Paid Tools)

~15 min read · January 27, 2026 (Updated: January 30, 2026) · Free: No

What Bug Bounty Really Looks Like for Beginners in 2026

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🚀 $3,000 for Finding a Hidden Subdomain: My Reconnaissance Success Story 💸

OSINT Team

OSINT Team

· ~3 min read · July 26, 2025 (Updated: July 26, 2025) · Free: No

When I first got into bug bounty hunting, I used to think finding big bugs required fancy...

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💥 From LFI to RCE via PHP Sessions (PHP 5) — A Complete Guide with Real Examples 🧠💻

~3 min read · July 3, 2025 (Updated: August 16, 2025) · Free: Yes

By Zoningxtr

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Blind XSS through PasteJacking: A Detailed Guide to Clipboard Exploitation

InfoSec Write-ups

InfoSec Write-ups

· ~5 min read · August 25, 2025 (Updated: September 15, 2025) · Free: No

Discover how attackers abuse clipboard paste handling to trigger Blind XSS from setup to...

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Someone Stitched Claude Opus Reasoning Into Qwen 3.5. It Runs on a Single RTX 3090.

Coding Nexus

Coding Nexus

· ~4 min read · March 8, 2026 (Updated: March 8, 2026) · Free: No

Qwen3.5–27B-Claude-4.6-Opus-Reasoning-Distilled, Qwopus for short, takes the Qwen 3.5 27B base...

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The Rebus Code: Unveiling the Secrets of Regex in R

Numbers around us

Numbers around us

· ~12 min read · May 9, 2024 (Updated: November 26, 2024) · Free: Yes

In the intricate world of data analysis, the task of text pattern recognition and extraction is...

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The Complete Guide to AI-Driven Penetration Testing: Cursor, MCP, and the Modern PT Workflow

InfoSec Write-ups

InfoSec Write-ups

· ~14 min read · February 19, 2026 (Updated: March 15, 2026) · Free: No

A comprehensive, step-by-step guide to running penetration tests the way that actually works —...

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How I Turned a Headless Browser into a Critical SSRF Goldmine

~3 min read · July 29, 2025 (Updated: July 29, 2025) · Free: No

Three months. That&#39s how long I stared at bug bounty programs, submitting low-risk findings...

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The "Free" Lie: 12 AI Tools That Are Actually Free (No Trials, No Credit Cards, No Nonsense)

~4 min read · June 9, 2025 (Updated: June 9, 2025) · Free: No

Tired of getting duped by "free" AI tools that aren&#39t? Here&#39s a verified list of...

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CVE-2025-55182: A Pre-Authentication Remote Code Execution in Next.js - Complete Guide

~4 min read · December 5, 2025 (Updated: December 6, 2025) · Free: No

Hey there, back again with another post! 😄

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Open Redirect to XSS: Chaining Vulnerabilities for Maximum Impact

~2 min read · December 17, 2024 (Updated: December 17, 2024) · Free: Yes

Hello guys! I&#39m back again with a real-life example of how I turned a simple open redirect...

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Bug Bounty Hunting 101: 10 Must-Do Steps to Target Reconnaissance

~3 min read · January 11, 2023 (Updated: January 19, 2023) · Free: No

Website reconnaissance, also known as "recon", is an essential step in the process of...

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Red Team Automation: 12 Scripts That Save Hours (and Win Real Engagements)

~8 min read · April 3, 2026 (Updated: April 3, 2026) · Free: No

Ever burned a whole weekend on manual recon, only to realize you missed a low-hanging RCE vector...

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Exploiting Django CVE‑2025‑64459 on TryHackMe: Complete Walkthrough

~5 min read · November 22, 2025 (Updated: November 22, 2025) · Free: Yes

How a tiny Django flaw turns simple filters into full‑database leaks.

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Django: CVE-2025–64459

MeetCyber

MeetCyber

· ~5 min read · November 18, 2025 (Updated: November 18, 2025) · Free: No

Explore and learn about the Django CVE-2025–64459 vulnerability.

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My 5-Minute Workflow to Find Bugs on Any Website

InfoSec Write-ups

InfoSec Write-ups

· ~11 min read · September 27, 2025 (Updated: October 30, 2025) · Free: No

A step-by-step guide to my most effective, shortcut methods for bug bounty hunting.

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13.31 Lab: Exploiting XSS to perform CSRF

Infosec Matrix

Infosec Matrix

· ~2 min read · June 25, 2024 (Updated: December 9, 2024) · Free: Yes

This lab contains a stored XSS vulnerability in the blog comments function. To solve the lab,...

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🔎 How to Read JavaScript Files for Hidden Endpoints

Bug Bounty Hunting: A Comprehensive Guide in English and french

Bug Bounty Hunting: A Comprehensive Guide in English and french

· ~4 min read · March 7, 2026 (Updated: March 7, 2026) · Free: No

🔎 One of the Most Powerful Recon Techniques in Bug Bounty

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Stealthy Recon: Master Passive Information Gathering for Pentesters Step-by-Step

~8 min read · November 5, 2025 (Updated: November 5, 2025) · Free: No

✨ Link for the full article in the first comment

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Internal vs External Pentest: 12 Tools Clients Don't Know Exist (and How Pros Use Them)

~10 min read · December 8, 2025 (Updated: December 8, 2025) · Free: No

Ever sat across from a client, nodding as they ask about "just running Nessus or nmap"...

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PHP Type Juggling Vulnerability

~4 min read · October 17, 2023 (Updated: October 19, 2023) · Free: Yes

What is Type Juggling:

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How I got my first $13500 bounty through Parameter Polluting (HPP)

InfoSec Write-ups

InfoSec Write-ups

· ~3 min read · August 10, 2024 (Updated: November 18, 2024) · Free: Yes

This write-up is about 2 IDORs and an XSS I found on a housing website. However what led me into...

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Announcing IWCON 2023 Speakers Fourth Batch

InfoSec Write-ups

InfoSec Write-ups

· ~2 min read · November 21, 2023 (Updated: November 22, 2023) · Free: Yes

Register today to be a part of the coolest Cybersecurity conference and end 2023 on a bang!

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Password Reset Flow Testing — The Most Overlooked Account Takeover Vulnerability

OSINT Team

OSINT Team

· ~7 min read · June 5, 2026 (Updated: June 6, 2026) · Free: No

Hackers don&#39t always crack passwords. Sometimes they just click "Forgot Password?"...

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Primary Methods to Reverse Engineering PE Files (.exe Files)

~6 min read · May 18, 2021 (Updated: January 6, 2022) · Free: Yes

Revere engineering, also called back engineering is the process by which a man-made object is...

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How I Found a $2,800 Bug in 60 minutes — and How You Can Spot It Too

~5 min read · July 29, 2025 (Updated: July 29, 2025) · Free: No

The $2,800 Bug That Took Just 1 Hour to Find

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PII-nacles of Discovery: Deep Recon, Fourth-Level Subdomains, and Abusing Exposed .git Repositories

~6 min read · August 7, 2023 (Updated: August 11, 2023) · Free: Yes

"All your Git repos are belong to us."

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🔍 Power of One-Liners: Master Bug Bounty Automation: 🔍

~3 min read · August 10, 2023 (Updated: August 7, 2025) · Free: No

🚀 Supercharge Your Bug Hunting with Brilliant One-Liners and Crush Vulnerabilities! 🚀

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The Top 10 Mistakes Bug Hunters Make and How to Avoid Them

~5 min read · January 11, 2023 (Updated: January 19, 2023) · Free: No

As a bug bounty hunter, finding vulnerabilities in a target application is crucial to success....

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Post-Exploitation Toolkit: 25 Commands Every Hacker Uses (Step-by-Step Guide)

~8 min read · October 26, 2025 (Updated: October 26, 2025) · Free: No

✨ Link for the full article in the first comment

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Finding & Exploiting Exposed Google API Keys for Bug $Bounties

InfoSec Write-ups

InfoSec Write-ups

· ~13 min read · May 23, 2026 (Updated: May 23, 2026) · Free: No

Turn exposed Google API keys into real-world impact by accessing Gemini and other Google services...

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Importing 100 Million Excel Records in Spring Boot: A Practical High-Performance Solution

~4 min read · March 1, 2026 (Updated: March 1, 2026) · Free: No

Importing 100 million records from an Excel file within the Spring Boot framework represents a...

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OAuth, OpenID, and JWT Attacks

Cloud Security

Cloud Security

· ~33 min read · March 16, 2025 (Updated: May 24, 2025) · Free: No

How do I hack thee? Let me count the ways…

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JS Link Finder Burp Suite Extension Guide

InfoSec Write-ups

InfoSec Write-ups

· ~4 min read · July 29, 2024 (Updated: November 19, 2024) · Free: No

Improve your bug bounty hunting, pentesting, and appsec skills with the JS Link Finder Burp Suite...

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Mastering SQLMap and Ghauri: A Practical Guide to WAF Bypass Techniques

InfoSec Write-ups

InfoSec Write-ups

· ~13 min read · January 15, 2026 (Updated: January 15, 2026) · Free: No

Step-by-Step Methods to Identify, Exploit and Bypass WAF Protections

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Prompt Injection Toolkit: 25 Payloads & Techniques for Mastering AI Pentesting

~9 min read · January 31, 2026 (Updated: January 31, 2026) · Free: No

Ever tried breaking an AI chatbot with a &#39please ignore all previous instructions&#39 prompt,...

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🚀 From Zero to $100K: How to Become an AI Hacker in 6 Months (While Everyone Else Missed the Boat)

System Weakness

System Weakness

· ~6 min read · September 11, 2025 (Updated: September 12, 2025) · Free: No

You type a simple message into ChatGPT, and suddenly it spills its entire system prompt, reveals...

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