The newest API Security resources are on the API Security page. For a reading order instead of a date order, see the API Security learning path.
| Date Added | Link | Excerpt |
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| 2026-08-05 2026 | Indusface Introduces SwyftComply AI Defining the Next Era of Application Security with Autonomous Vulnerability Remediation news 3 min read | Library for autonomous vulnerability remediation; SwyftComply AI uses AI-assisted pentesting for rapid discovery of vulnerabilities, followed by automatic virtual patching at the edge and human-certified validation by security experts within an SLA, delivering continuous compliance reports. |
| 2026-08-04 2026 | Indusface Introduces SwyftComply AI Defining the Next Era of Application Security with Autonomous Vulnerability Remediation news 3 min read | Library for autonomous vulnerability remediation, SwyftComply AI from Indusface, enables rapid protection of applications by virtually patching AI-discovered vulnerabilities. The solution offers AI-assisted discovery of critical and high-severity flaws, automatic virtual patching at the edge without code changes, human-certified validation by security experts within an SLA, and continuous compliance reporting. SwyftComply AI aims to bridge the gap between accelerated vulnerability discovery and delayed remediation, allowing enterprises to secure applications as quickly as threats emerge. |
| 2026-08-04 2026 | Critical Azure Cosmos DB flaw threatened cross-tenant database takeover news 3 min read | Library for Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API analysis detailing the CosmosEscape vulnerability, which allowed attackers to escape the Gremlin query sandbox and obtain the "Cosmos Master Key." This flaw could have enabled cross-tenant database takeover, impacting services like Microsoft Entra ID, Teams, and Copilot. Wiz researchers discovered and privately disclosed the vulnerability to Microsoft, which has since remediated the issue and removed the platform-wide authentication mechanism. → csoonline.com |
| 2026-08-04 2026 | Indusface Introduces SwyftComply AI Defining the Next Era of Application Security with Autonomous Vulnerability Remediation news 3 min read | Library for autonomous vulnerability remediation, SwyftComply AI from Indusface leverages AI-assisted discovery to uncover critical and high-severity vulnerabilities. It provides autonomous virtual patching at the edge, human-certified validation with SLA guarantees, and continuous compliance reporting, enabling enterprises to rapidly protect applications against AI-driven threats without impacting development timelines. |
| 2026-08-04 2026 | Cruising for Shells in Flowise - elttam intermediate 25 min read RCE | Tool for identifying Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities within the Flowise AI workflow platform. This analysis details multiple vectors discovered in versions 3.1.1 and 3.1.2, including exploitation of the `pandas` library via the CSVAgent node by controlling Python code execution and abusing TypeORM's `DataSource` initialization to load arbitrary JavaScript. The research also covers prior vulnerabilities such as CVE-2025-58434 and the insecure use of `stdio` MCP servers leading to CVE-2026-40933 and others. → elttam.com |
| 2026-08-03 2026 | S3 Clones in the Neoclouds beginner 8 min read | Analysis of S3-compatible object storage services highlights risks unique to these "S3 clones" like Nebius, Crusoe, Vultr, Lambda Labs, Cloudflare, and DigitalOcean. While offering convenience by adhering to S3 APIs, these services often lack the robust security features of AWS S3, such as comprehensive IAM policy controls and default public access blocking. Issues arise with public bucket configurations, credential management (lack of secret scanning for some vendors), and limited least privilege capabilities, creating potential vulnerabilities for organizations adopting these alternative cloud storage solutions. → wiz.io |
| 2026-07-31 2026 | Public-Facing Application Attacks Are Now the Initial Access Problem beginner 9 min read | Library for continuous runtime application and API risk management, focusing on public-facing application vulnerability exploitation as the leading initial access vector. It addresses the shift in attack paths driven by AI, which compresses attacker timelines and introduces new risks through AI-powered features within applications. This library helps organizations adapt to modern AppSec challenges where traditional vulnerability management fall short, emphasizing the need for runtime testing to validate exploitable attack paths and manage the expanding AI attack surface. → blog.qualys.com |
| 2026-07-31 2026 | Building secure Uniswap v4 hooks intermediate 9 min read | Library of security patterns for building secure Uniswap v4 hooks. This resource analyzes recurring failure modes in application and hook code, including missing caller checks (seen in the Cork exploit), improper pool validation (as in Semantic Layer's SVFHook finding), custom accounting errors leading to value leaks (evidenced by the Bunni exploit's rounding bug), incorrect hook sequencing, and issues with address bits in the API. Developers can use these identified patterns as a development checklist, while auditors can leverage them to focus their review efforts. → blog.trailofbits.com |
| 2026-07-31 2026 | CosmosEscape: Taking Over Every Azure Cosmos DB news 6 min read | Library for identifying and exploiting CosmosEscape, a critical vulnerability in Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin API. This flaw allows attackers to obtain a platform-wide "Cosmos Master Key," enabling the takeover and enumeration of all databases across the service, including those used by Microsoft's internal services like Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Teams. The vulnerability stems from a bypass of the Gremlin query sandbox, leading to code execution and access to a configuration store that lists all Cosmos DB accounts. → wiz.io |
| 2026-07-30 2026 | HTTP Request Smuggling in Hiawatha intermediate 10 min read | Writeup detailing an HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability (CWE-444) in Hiawatha versions <= 12.1. This flaw arises from Hiawatha incorrectly prioritizing Content-Length over the mandated Transfer-Encoding header and, when acting as a reverse proxy, forwarding ambiguous requests without stripping the original Content-Length. Exploitation by an unauthenticated attacker can desynchronize front-end and back-end connections, potentially leading to denial of service, integrity violations, or unauthorized resource access. The vulnerability was patched in Hiawatha version 12.2. |
| 2026-07-30 2026 | The Most Overlooked Vulnerability — Http request Smuggling beginner 4 min read | Writeup on HTTP Request Smuggling details how inconsistencies in how front-end and back-end servers parse headers, specifically `Content-Length` and `Transfer-Encoding`, can lead to vulnerabilities. This desynchronization, manifesting as CL.TE, TE.CL, or TE.TE attacks, allows bypasses of security filters, session hijacking, and cache poisoning by injecting malicious data or requests into subsequent legitimate traffic. The writeup highlights the ambiguity inherent in HTTP/1.1 and contrasts it with the frame-based delimiter system of HTTP/2. → infosecwriteups.com |
| 2026-07-30 2026 | Contrast Security Launches CVE Shield as AI Accelerates Exploitation of Known Vulnerabilities news | Contrast Security has introduced CVE Shield, a new solution designed to combat the accelerated exploitation of known vulnerabilities by AI. This product aims to help organizations proactively identify and remediate risks posed by these rapidly weaponized CVEs. The AI-driven threat landscape necessitates faster and more effective vulnerability management. CVE Shield offers a way for businesses to stay ahead of these evolving threats. |
| 2026-07-29 2026 | Bugcrowd brings continuous agentic pentesting to web apps and APIs with Savant Pathseeker news 3 min read | Library by Bugcrowd, Savant Pathseeker, offers continuous agentic penetration testing for external web applications and APIs. Unlike traditional scanners, it identifies vulnerabilities, attempts exploitation, and provides evidence of exploitability. Pathseeker utilizes purpose-built agentic systems with proprietary security testing skills and orchestration, including autonomous API fuzzing and attack-path reasoning, complementing human-led investigations for complex issues. Findings integrate directly into the Bugcrowd platform, correlating with human results for prioritized remediation. → msspalert.com |
| 2026-07-29 2026 | How an Unpatched N-Day Let Any Anonymous Visitor Rewrite WooCommerce Prices in ND Booking news 11 min read AuthZ Bug Bounty | Writeup detailing CVE-2025–63001, an unpatched vulnerability in ND Booking for WordPress that allows anonymous users to rewrite WooCommerce product prices. The flaw lies in ND Booking’s AJAX handler `nd_booking_woo_php`, which fails to properly validate pricing and uses a publicly accessible nonce for authentication, enabling attackers to directly set arbitrary prices for linked WooCommerce products. → infosecwriteups.com |
| 2026-07-29 2026 | How I found an IDOR in Google Classroom on Day 3 of my Hunting? beginner 3 min read Bug Bounty IDOR | Writeup detailing an IDOR vulnerability in Google Classroom's Batchexecute system. The author discovered that by manipulating submission IDs within Batchexecute RPC calls, it was possible to post private comments to assignments belonging to other students. This bypasses authorization checks designed to restrict visibility of these comments to only the student and their teacher, and was discoverable by analyzing traffic from enrollment pages. → infosecwriteups.com |
| 2026-07-28 2026 | Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles intermediate 4 min read AuthZ | Writeup detailing the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities within Volvo/Eicher's My Eicher fleet management platform. The research uncovered unauthenticated internal APIs that allowed for account takeover, granting control over user accounts and their associated vehicle fleets. Sensitive data, including Aadhaar cards and driving licenses, was also exposed through these APIs. |
| 2026-07-28 2026 | Unauthenticated Disclosure of A/B Test Data in Convert Pro — How Two Forgotten AJAX Endpoints… intermediate 9 min read AuthZ | Writeup detailing an unauthenticated disclosure of A/B test data in Convert Pro version 1.0.1. Two forgotten AJAX endpoints, `convertpro_interactions_report_ajax` and `convertpro_get_chart_data`, allowed unauthorized access to sensitive split-test configurations, names, variations, and complete view/conversion statistics by simply requesting URLs with sequential integer IDs. The vulnerability stemmed from a lack of authentication and authorization checks on these reporting endpoints, despite them accessing internal plugin tables. → infosecwriteups.com |
| 2026-07-21 2026 | Exploitation in the Wild of wp2shell news 3 min read RCE | Writeup detailing the exploitation of wp2shell, a critical pre-authentication RCE vulnerability chain in WordPress Core (CVE-2026-63030 & CVE-2026-60137). Attackers deploy persistent webshells, perform user enumeration via the REST API, and attempt local file inclusion attacks against `admin-ajax.php`. This writeup covers observed post-exploitation activities including malicious plugin uploads and the use of sophisticated PHP webshells, as well as detection indicators like HTTP 207/200 responses to batch endpoint requests. → wiz.io |
| 2026-07-19 2026 | 600$ For Stealing Podcasts/Show via RSS Feed Manipulation intermediate 2 min read AuthZ | Writeup detailing a business logic flaw on a podcasting platform where manipulating an RSS feed's `<itunes:email>` tag allowed an attacker to bypass ownership verification, claim legitimate podcasts, and impersonate creators. The flaw was exploitable by hosting a modified RSS feed on cloud storage and submitting its URL to the platform, which then sent a verification code to the attacker's email. The platform patched this by implementing stricter checks on RSS feed content and detecting re-hosted copies. → infosecwriteups.com |
| 2026-07-19 2026 | From User Enumeration to PII Exposure: Chaining Two APIs Into a $2,000 Bug intermediate AuthZ | Writeup detailing a chained Broken Access Control vulnerability on target.com's Academy platform. This exploit, starting with user enumeration via a messaging feature and escalating through API interaction, successfully exposed sensitive personal information at scale, leading to a $2,000 bounty. The technique highlights the critical importance of examining API endpoint interactions rather than individual endpoint security. → infosecwriteups.com |
| 2026-07-18 2026 | What Is API-Driven Threat Intelligence? beginner 8 min read | Library for API-driven threat intelligence, automating the sharing of cyber threat data like Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), Indicators of Attack (IOAs), and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) between security systems using structured formats such as STIX and TAXII. This enables continuous updates, faster detection, and coordinated responses by integrating with SIEM and SOAR platforms for automated actions and threat hunting. → cloudsek.com |
| 2026-07-18 2026 | Zero Credentials, Full Access: Inside a Complete Authorization Failure intermediate 3 min read AuthN AuthZ | Writeup detailing a critical authorization failure in an enterprise SaaS API where trust boundaries were repeatedly breached, allowing unauthenticated users to access premium functionality, impersonate other users, read private conversations, and manipulate server-side resources by exploiting a lack of authentication, client-controlled metadata, and exposed API documentation. → infosecwriteups.com |
| 2026-07-16 2026 | The Red Agent POV: The One Boolean That Broke a B2B Platform’s Credit System intermediate 5 min read AuthZ | Writeup detailing a business-logic flaw discovered by an autonomous agent in a B2B platform’s credit system, allowing free-tier users to access millions of paywalled contact records. The flaw, a single client-controlled boolean flag (`unmaskContactData`), bypassed authorization and monetization controls because the backend failed to validate user entitlements, demonstrating how conventional SAST and DAST tools miss these intent-based vulnerabilities. → wiz.io |
| 2026-07-15 2026 | Introducing snowpick: Testing ServiceNow for Public Data Exposure beginner 10 min read AuthZ | Tool for testing ServiceNow instances for public data exposure, snowpick automates the discovery of vulnerable Service Portal widgets and Table REST API endpoints. It differentiates between full row access and count-only leaks, generating reproducible evidence packages. The tool leverages research on widget-simple-list and the Table REST API, building on prior work by Aaron Costello and AppOmni, and addresses blind inference techniques like those documented by Varonis Threat Labs in CVE-2025-3648. → bishopfox.com |
| 2026-07-14 2026 | RabbitMQ Flaws Could Leak OAuth Secrets and Expose Cross-Tenant Queue Metadata news 2 min read | Writeup of RabbitMQ vulnerabilities CVE-2026-57219 and CVE-2026-57221 details how an unauthenticated attacker can leak OAuth client secrets, potentially leading to full broker takeover, and how authenticated users can enumerate other tenants' queues and metadata. These flaws, present since early 2024 in RabbitMQ release lines 3.13.0 and later, have been fixed in newer versions. Mitigation advice includes patching, rotating secrets, restricting management interface access, and tenant isolation. → thehackernews.com |
| 2026-07-11 2026 | How to keep an HTTP connection alive for 9 hours intermediate 9 min read AuthN | Tool for managing CTF user accounts and notifications, built with Spring Boot, Spring Security, and WebFlux. It integrates with the CTFd API to create users, assign unique aliases, and manage email notifications, including handling API rate limits with robust retry mechanisms and supporting long-running bulk email processes using Server-Sent Events (SSE) for status updates. → snyk.io |
| 2026-07-10 2026 | Your next insider threat doesnt have a badge. It has an API token beginner 6 min read | Library for securing AI agents, this resource addresses the evolving threat landscape where authorized AI agents, acting within their granted permissions, can cause breaches through sequences of seemingly benign actions. It details failure modes like tool-chain abuse, delegation-chain exploitation, and approval evasion, arguing that traditional security models focused on "who is allowed in" and "what data is allowed out" are insufficient for agentic systems. The library advocates for a runtime policy engine to govern agent actions at the moment they occur, ensuring authority shrinks during delegation and that audit logs serve as immutable evidence. |
| 2026-07-08 2026 | Chaining a DOM XSS Sink, WAF Bypass, Cross-Origin Smuggling, and SDK Abuse into One Click Account… advanced 8 min read AuthN XSS | Library for chaining application vulnerabilities, including DOM XSS sinks, Akamai WAF bypasses, cross-origin smuggling via `window.name`, and authentication SDK abuse. This technique exploits a lack of URL validation in error pages, a structural flaw in an Akamai WAF rule allowing `javascript:top["setTimeout"](name)`, and the persistence of `window.name` across origins to execute arbitrary JavaScript. The payload then leverages a first-party authentication SDK to exfiltrate signed JWTs and live AWS STS credentials, enabling one-click account takeover. → infosecwriteups.com |
| 2026-07-02 2026 | Auditing OpenReception: 16 CVEs in an end-to-end encrypted appointment booking platform (unauthenticated admin creation, account takeover, E2E bypass) intermediate 8 min read AuthN AuthZ | Analysis of OpenReception reveals sixteen vulnerabilities, including critical flaws like CVE-2026-48086 enabling tenant admin self-promotion to GLOBAL_ADMIN. Unauthenticated GLOBAL_ADMIN creation via CVE-2026-48085 persists post-setup, while CVE-2026-48087 allows WebAuthn passkey injection for account takeover. Furthermore, CVE-2026-48088 facilitates staff crypto poisoning, defeating the platform's end-to-end encryption by allowing attackers to become silent co-recipients of encrypted booking data. |
| 2026-07-02 2026 | Auth Bypass is it? intermediate AuthN AuthZ | Writeup detailing an authentication bypass vulnerability found in an MSPACE-style auto-login feature. The vulnerability arose because the backend endpoint trusted a client-side decrypted data URL parameter, allowing a fake inner MSPACE token to pass validation despite a valid outer API bearer token. → infosecwriteups.com |
| 2026-07-02 2026 | How I Found an Email Verification Bypass on an AI Freelance Platform intermediate 6 min read AuthN | Writeup detailing an email verification bypass on an AI freelance platform, discovered by observing network traffic in Chrome DevTools during account registration. The vulnerability stemmed from the platform reusing the same JWT in both the registration response and the email verification link, rendering the email itself unnecessary for account verification. This flaw breaks the trust model of email verification, allowing users to bypass ownership confirmation and potentially impacting features reliant on verified email addresses. → infosecwriteups.com |
| 2026-07-01 2026 | OpenAPI Authentication and Authorization Best Practices intermediate | This article discusses best practices for implementing authentication and authorization within OpenAPI specifications. It emphasizes the importance of clearly defining these security mechanisms to ensure secure API interactions. The content likely covers methods like API keys, OAuth 2.0, and JWTs, providing guidance on how to represent them accurately in OpenAPI. The goal is to enable developers to build more secure and robust APIs by adhering to these standards. → hackernoon.com |
| 2026-06-26 2026 | Amazon Q Developer Flaw Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code via MCP Configs news 3 min read | Library patch for Amazon Q Developer addresses CVE-2026-12957, a high-severity flaw allowing malicious repositories to execute arbitrary code and steal cloud credentials via Model Context Protocol (MCP) configurations. The vulnerability, discovered by Wiz Research, exploited how Amazon Q processed MCP servers defined in `.amazonq/mcp.json` files within trusted workspaces. Patches are available in Language Servers for AWS versions 1.69.0 and later, affecting plugins for VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Visual Studio. A second vulnerability, CVE-2026-12958, is also fixed. → thehackernews.com |
| 2026-06-23 2026 | OpenAI expands Daybreak debuts GPT-5.5-Cyber to accelerate software defense news 2 min read | Library expansion, OpenAI's Daybreak initiative now includes the Codex Security plugin and a limited release of GPT-5.5-Cyber for defense experts. Codex Security analyzes code, models threats, and develops patches, while GPT-5.5-Cyber assists with vulnerability discovery and patching in large codebases. The program partners with organizations like Trail of Bits, HackerOne, and governments to enhance open-source project security, including notable projects like cURL, Go, Python, Sigstore, and pyca/cryptography. |
| 2026-06-21 2026 | Custom runtime rules and runtime response policies: new layers of defense intermediate 3 min read | Library introducing custom runtime rules and runtime response policies for cloud environments. These features enhance defense-in-depth by providing real-time threat detection through flexible rule creation based on process execution, network connections, DNS queries, network listening, and actors. Matches can trigger alerts, update security graphs, or initiate automated response policies, which can block high-certainty threats to mitigate damage and reduce manual effort. → wiz.io |
| 2026-06-21 2026 | How Wiz customers are flippin' vulnerabilities this July 4th weekend news 4 min read | Library demonstrating how three companies, Schrödinger, Schibsted, and a financial services firm, achieved zero critical cloud vulnerabilities by leveraging Wiz for enhanced visibility, proactive remediation, and DevSecOps integration. The approach includes using the Wiz Command Line Interface for early detection, integrating with JIRA for issue tracking, centralizing security across multiple brands, and automating security settings via API queries, enabling cross-team collaboration and informed risk prioritization. → wiz.io |
| 2026-06-21 2026 | Enhance existing security workflows with high-fidelity cloud security data from Wiz in ServiceNow intermediate 4 min read | Library for integrating Wiz's cloud security data into ServiceNow, enhancing existing IT, vulnerability response, compliance, and configuration management workflows. This integration populates ServiceNow Vulnerability Response with enriched vulnerability fields, Container Vulnerability Response with container image context, Configuration Compliance with misconfiguration findings mapped to frameworks, and the CMDB with accurate cloud inventory via a Service Graph Connector. It also generates tickets in ServiceNow ITSM for issue tracking and remediation, enabling teams to prioritize and fix cloud security issues with greater context and efficiency. → wiz.io |
| 2026-06-21 2026 | SAPwned: SAP AI vulnerabilities expose customers’ cloud environments and private AI artifacts news 7 min read AI | Library for identifying and mitigating "SAPwned" vulnerabilities in SAP AI Core, enabling arbitrary code execution. The library's research details how attackers can gain cluster administrator privileges on SAP's Kubernetes cluster, access customer cloud credentials (AWS, Azure, SAP HANA Cloud), and compromise internal Docker registries and Artifactory servers via unauthenticated Helm (Tiller) and Loki configurations, as well as expose user files through unauthenticated EFS shares. → wiz.io |
| 2026-06-21 2026 | Your control tower to secure code across GitHub, GitLab, and Azure Repos intermediate 4 min read Supply Chain | Library that unifies code security across GitHub, GitLab, and Azure Repos. It leverages a Security Graph for holistic visibility, detailed ownership mapping, and risk prioritization. Wiz scans code for vulnerabilities, IaC misconfigurations (Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes), secrets, and malware. It also checks VCS configurations against benchmarks like OpenSSF SCM Best Practices and OWASP TOP10 CI/CD. WizCLI integrates with CI/CD pipelines, offering a unified policy engine and consolidated findings for secure code delivery. → wiz.io |
| 2026-06-21 2026 | Build and deploy a Node.js security scanning API to Platformatic Cloud intermediate 9 min read | Library for building a Node.js security scanning API using Platformatic and Fastify. This resource details how to scaffold a Node.js service with Platformatic, integrate the Snyk CLI and API for vulnerability detection, and create a POST endpoint to test npm packages. It emphasizes securing API tokens using environment variables and IDE extensions like the Snyk VS Code extension for secret detection. → snyk.io |
| 2026-06-20 2026 | Hackers Exploit Gravity SMTP WordPress Plugin Bug to Expose API Keys news 2 min read | Writeup of CVE-2026-4020 in Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that allows unauthenticated attackers to extract API keys and system details via an exposed REST API endpoint. Exploited versions can reveal sensitive data including PHP and web server versions, active plugins, WordPress configuration, and credentials for email integrations like Amazon SES and Google. Attackers leverage this information for further compromise. A patch is available in version 2.1.5. → thehackernews.com |
| 2026-06-20 2026 | Avoiding security incidents due to request collapsing intermediate 5 min read | Library for mitigating security incidents caused by request collapsing in web caching, a feature of caching services like Amazon CloudFront that can return sensitive data intended for one user to multiple others. This behavior occurs when multiple identical requests for the same cache key arrive before the first response is returned, leading to delayed requests receiving a response that should not have been cached, even when Cache-Control: no-cache is used. The library suggests using the "CachingDisabled" managed cache policy or setting minimum TTL to 0 and configuring the origin to send Cache-Control: no-cache. → wiz.io |
| 2026-06-19 2026 | API Sprawl beginner 10 min read | Analysis of API Sprawl discusses the security risks and inefficiencies arising from unmanaged and undocumented APIs. Fueled by factors like decentralized development, microservices architectures, and DevOps practices, API sprawl leads to an expanded attack surface, with instances of shadow and zombie APIs posing significant threats. Organizations like Imperva report having more active APIs than they are aware of, contributing to an average of 10% to 20% more. This proliferation, highlighted by SALT's survey showing 57% of organizations suffering API-related data breaches, underscores the urgent need for robust API management and governance to mitigate security vulnerabilities and costs. → ibm.com |
| 2026-06-19 2026 | How to secure Python Flask applications beginner 14 min read Python | Library for securing Python Flask applications, addressing common vulnerabilities like XSS, CSRF, and SQL injection. It details insecure configurations such as secret key exposure, enabled debug mode in production, and unprotected sensitive data in configuration files. The resource highlights best practices like using environment variables for credentials, securely generating secret keys with `uuid`, and leveraging tools like Snyk for vulnerability detection and mitigation. → snyk.io |
| 2026-06-19 2026 | Preventing broken access control in express Node.js applications beginner 11 min read AuthZ | Library for preventing broken access control in Express.js Node.js applications, detailing vulnerabilities like unprotected admin panels, query parameter manipulation, obscure routes, clear text logging, insecure direct object references (IDOR), and missing CSRF protections. This resource explains how these flaws allow unauthorized access to sensitive data and administrative functions, impacting user privacy and system integrity. → snyk.io |
| 2026-06-19 2026 | Build an IDOR Vulnerability Lab: Why WHERE Clauses Don’t Protect Your API. intermediate IDOR | This article explains how IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) vulnerabilities can occur in backend APIs, demonstrating that WHERE clauses alone do not adequately protect against them. The author emphasizes that API calls can be manipulated before reaching the server, leading to insecure queries. The content aims to teach developers how to make queries safer by addressing this common oversight. → infosecwriteups.com |
| 2026-06-19 2026 | Shynet | VERSION 0.13.1 news 11 min read Bug Bounty | Library identifying stored cross-site scripting (CVE-2026-35508) and password reset poisoning vulnerabilities in Shynet version 0.13.1. The XSS flaw allowed unauthenticated attackers to inject malicious JavaScript into analytics tracking scripts, potentially compromising all monitored web applications. The password reset vulnerability enabled account takeover via spoofed Host headers. Updates to version 0.14.0 are recommended. → bishopfox.com |
| 2026-06-18 2026 | How to secure a REST API? beginner 11 min read | Library for securing REST APIs, addressing injection attacks, broken authentication (like the 2018 Reddit breach), sensitive data exposure, rate limiting vulnerabilities (seen in the 2016 Dyn attack), and insecure dependencies (as with the 2017 Equifax breach via Apache Struts). It details implementing OAuth 2.0 and JWT for authentication, secure token management, enforcing HTTPS, and using AES encryption. The library also highlights the importance of HTTP headers such as Content Security Policy (CSP) and X-Content-Type-Options, recommending tools like Snyk Code and Snyk Open Source for vulnerability detection. → snyk.io |
| 2026-06-17 2026 | 42Crunch and GitHub Copilot Bring Deterministic API Security Guardrails to Agentic DevSecOps beginner | 42Crunch and GitHub Copilot are integrating to provide deterministic API security guardrails for agentic DevSecOps. This collaboration aims to enhance the security of API development by embedding security checks directly into the development workflow. By leveraging Copilot's AI capabilities alongside 42Crunch's API security platform, developers can proactively identify and address potential vulnerabilities, leading to more secure APIs from the outset. The goal is to streamline security processes and improve the overall resilience of API-driven applications. |
| 2026-06-17 2026 | Bug Bounty Bootcamp #45: Token? intermediate AuthN | In Bug Bounty Bootcamp #45, a critical vulnerability is highlighted: a password reset function that inadvertently leaks the magic token in its API response. This discovery poses a significant security risk, potentially allowing unauthorized access. The article suggests that developers may have even left an endpoint that directly provides this sensitive token, exacerbating the vulnerability. Further details on this insecure implementation and its implications can be found on InfoSec Write-ups. → infosecwriteups.com |