The Unofficial HackTheBox Web Exploitation Expert (CWEE) Study Notes

The HTB Certified Web Exploitation Expert certification assesses advanced offensive webapplication security skills through a practical examination.

The certification is associated with the Senior Web Penetration Tester job-role path,

which contains 15 training modules covering advanced exploitation techniques, securecoding, source code auditing, and application debugging.

Candidates must complete the entire job-role path before becoming eligible to begin theexamination.The exam itself provides a dedicated environment containing multiple web applicationswith different architectures and programming technologies. Candidates are expected toperform both black-box and white-box testing, identify vulnerabilities, develop functionalexploitation techniques, and document their findings.

Authored and reviewed by certified professionals with firsthand experience preparing for and earning the certification.

Who Is It For

• Senior penetration testers: Professionals seeking to strengthen their capabilities in advanced web exploitation and multi-stage attack chains.
• Web application penetration testers: Security practitioners who want to move beyond conventional vulnerability testing into white-box analysis and custom exploitation.
• Application security engineers: Professionals responsible for identifying, understanding, and remediating vulnerabilities in application code.
• Frontend and backend developers: Developers interested in understanding how application logic, insecure coding patterns, and architectural decisions introduce exploitable vulnerabilities.
• Source code security reviewers: Researchers and auditors who analyze large codebases to uncover subtle security weaknesses.
• Experienced bug bounty hunters: Researchers seeking to identify complex vulnerabilities that automated scanners and conventional testing methodologies frequently miss.

Table of Contents:

• HTB CWEE Exam Preparation
• Modern Web Exploitation Techniques
• DNS Rebinding
• SSRF Basic Filter Bypasses
• Second-Order Web Attacks
• Second-Order Command Injection
• Second-Order IDOR (Blackbox)
• WebSocket Attacks
• XPath Injection
• XPath Authentication Bypass
• XPath Advanced Data Exfiltration
• XPathBlind Exploitation
• XPath Injection Prevention & Tools
• PDF Generation Vulnerabilities
• Exploitation of PDF Generation Vulnerabilities
• Prevention of PDF Generation Vulnerabilities
• LDAP Injection
• LDAP - Authentication Bypass
• LDAP - Data Exfiltration & Blind Exploitation
• LDAP Injection Prevention
• NoSQL Injection
• Authentication Mechanisms
• Server-Side JavaScript Injection
• Attacking JWT Signature Verification
• Attacking the JWT Signing Secret
• Algorithm Confusion Attack (JWT)
• Further JWT Attacks & Header Claim Exploitation
• JWT Tools of the Trade & Vulnerability Prevention
• OAuth
• Stealing Access Tokens via OAuth Misconfigurations
• Improper CSRF Protection in OAuth (The state Parameter)
• Additional OAuth Vulnerabilities
• OAuth Vulnerability Prevention
• SAML
• Signature Exclusion Attack
• Advanced CSRF & XSS Exploitation
• Same-Origin Policy and CORS
• CORS Misconfigurations
• Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Vulnerability Prevention
• Misc CSRF Exploitation
• XSS Exploitation
• Enumerating Internal APIs
• Exploiting internal Web Applications II
• Content Security Policy (CSP)
• Bypassing Weak CSPs
• XSS Filter Bypasses
• Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability Prevention
• Launching Attacks from the Victim's Session
• HTTP Misconfigurations
• Web Cache Poisoning
• Host Header Attacks
• Web Cache Deception
• Web Cache Poisoning
• Handshake Overview
• TLS 1.3
• Public Key Infrastructure
• What is Padding?
• Padding Oracles
• POODLE & BEAST
• Bleichenbacher & DROWN
• Heartbleed Bug
• Cryptographic Attacks
• Downgrade Attacks
• Testing TLS Configuration
• Introduction to MSSQL/SQL Server
• Introduction to Blind SQL Injection
• Identifying Boolean-based SQLi
• Designing the Oracle
• Optimizing Blind SQLi
• Time-based SQLi
• Time-based Oracle Design
• Time-based Data Extraction
• Out-of-Band DNS Exfiltration
• MSSQL Remote Code Execution
• MSSQL File Read

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Format: PDF

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