Tag
SQL Injection
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posts
Web Security
Web Security
WAF Evasion 101: How Attackers Bypass “Security Gates”
Attackers reshape the same malicious payload just enough that the WAF no longer recognizes it, while the backend still executes it exactly as intended. This post walks through the real evasion playbook (encoding tricks, token splitting, noise injection, and reinforcement-learning-driven automated probing) and shows why the problem is structural, not a matter of sloppy engineering.
Ahmed Maghawry
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Jul 27, 2026
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14 min
Web Security
Web Security
CyCTF 2023 Challenge: A Whitebox Walkthrough of "The Secret App v1.0"
A whitebox walkthrough of the CyCTF 2023 'Secret App v1.0' challenge — chaining second-order blind SQL injection, a CAPTCHA logic flaw, and insecure session handling into a full admin account takeover.
Hussein Misbah
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Jun 16, 2026
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14 min