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Feb 2024
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Episode 59: Bug Bounty Gadget Hunting & ...

Justin Gardner (Rhynorater) & Joseph Thacker (Rez0)
About this episode

Episode 59: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Justin and Joel discuss the concept of gadgets and how they can be used to escalate the impact of vulnerabilities. We talk through things like HTML injection, image injection, CRLF injection, web cache deception, leaking window location, self-stored XSS, and much more.

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Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:03:31) Caido's New Features

(00:15:20) Nahamcon News and 5 week Bootcamp and pentest opportunity

(00:19:54) HTML Injection, CSS Injection, and Clickjacking

(00:33:11) Image Injection

(00:37:19) Open Redirects, Client-side path traversal, and Client-side Open Redirect

(00:49:51) Leaking window.location.href

(00:57:15) Cookie refresh gadget

(01:01:40) Stored XXS

(01:09:01) CRLF Injection

(01:13:24) 'A Place To Stand' in  GraphQL and ID Oracle

(01:18:23) Auth gadgets, Web Cache Deception, & LocalStorage poisoning

(01:27:46) Cookie Injection & Context Breaks

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