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This book delivers a deep technical exploration of advanced web application attack vectors across modern application architectures. Moving far beyond introductory concepts, it examines sophisticated exploitation techniques including injection attacks, authentication bypasses, client-side vulnerabilities, Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), insecure deserialization, API security testing, business logic abuse, web cache poisoning, HTTP request smuggling, cloud-native security weaknesses, evasion methods, exploit chaining, and emerging attack trends.

New in the 2026 Edition

This fully updated edition includes extensive new coverage of the latest research, vulnerabilities, and real-world attack techniques:

React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) — Analysis of the critical React Server Components remote code execution vulnerability and its exploitation by state-sponsored threat actors.
WAFFLED — Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF) bypass techniques leveraging parsing discrepancies uncovered through black-box fuzzing research.
HTTP/3 and QUIC Security — Coverage of emerging attack vectors including QUIC-er Races, Single Datagram Attacks, TOCTOU race conditions, and the QUIC-LEAK vulnerability.
OAuth 2.1 Security Pitfalls — Device code phishing attacks (Storm-2372), consent phishing, cross-application attacks, domain resurrection, and DPoP implementation flaws.
AI and ML-Powered Web Attacks — Prompt injection, AI-assisted reconnaissance, deepfake-enabled social engineering, LLMjacking, and attacks targeting Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
WebAssembly Security — Memory safety issues, WASM-to-JavaScript binding exploitation, sandbox escape considerations, and side-channel attack techniques.
IoT Web API Security — MQTT and CoAP vulnerabilities, DDoS amplification vectors, and attacks with real-world physical security implications.
Software Supply Chain Attacks — npm and PyPI package compromise techniques, dependency confusion, model poisoning, and attacks targeting machine learning ecosystems such as Hugging Face.

Written for intermediate to advanced security professionals, this guide equips penetration testers, application security engineers, security researchers, and developers with the knowledge and practical methodologies required to identify, assess, exploit, and defend against the evolving threats facing modern web applications.

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