JavaScript for hackers
JavaScript for hackers
Learn to think like a hacker
About the Book
Have you ever wondered how a hacker approaches finding flaws in the browser and JavaScript? This book shares the thought processes and gives you tools to find your own flaws. It shares the basics of JavaScript hacking, then dives in and explains how to construct JavaScript payloads that don't use parentheses.
- Shows how you can find flaws with fuzzing and how to quickly fuzz millions of characters in seconds.
- Want to hack the DOM? This book has you covered.
- Read about various browser SOP bypasses that the author found in detail.
- No idea about client-side prototype pollution? This is the book for you!
- Want to learn the latest & greatest XSS techniques? You need to buy this book.
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Table of Contents
- 1:Chapter one - Introduction
- 1.1:Environment
- 1.2:Set a goal
- 1.3:Fuzzing
- 1.4:Persistence and luck
- 1.5:Social media
- 1.6:The basics
- 1.7:Summary
- 2:Chapter two - JavaScript without parentheses
- 2.1:Calling functions without parentheses
- 2.2:Calling functions with arguments without parentheses
- 2.3:Throw expressions
- 2.4:Tagged templates
- 2.5:Has instance symbol
- 2.6:Summary
- 3:Chapter three - Fuzzing
- 3.1:The truth
- 3.2:Fuzzing JavaScript URLs
- 3.3:Fuzzing HTTP URLs
- 3.4:Fuzzing HTML
- 3.5:Fuzzing known behaviours
- 3.6:Fuzzing escapes
- 3.7:Summary
- 4:Chapter four - DOM for hackers
- 4.1:Where’s my window?
- 4.2:Scope of a HTML event
- 4.3:DOM clobbering
- 4.4:Summary
- 5:Chapter five - Browser exploits
- 5.1:Introduction
- 5.2:Firefox incorrect handling of cross origin URLs
- 5.3:Safari assignments to cross origin hostnames
- 5.4:Internet Explorer full SOP bypass
- 5.5:Chrome partial SOP infoleak
- 5.6:Safari full SOP bypass
- 5.7:Opera SOP bypass
- 5.8:Summary
- 6:Chapter six - Prototype pollution
- 6.1:Introduction
- 6.2:Client-side prototype pollution
- 6.3:Server-side prototype pollution
- 6.4:Summary
- 7:Chapter seven - Non-alphanumeric JavaScript
- 7.1:Writing non-alphanumeric JavaScript
- 7.2:Non-alpha without parentheses
- 7.3:The six character wall
- 7.4:Infinity and beyond
- 7.5:Summary
- 8:Chapter eight - XSS
- 8.1:Closing scripts
- 8.2:Comments inside scripts
- 8.3:HTML entities inside SVG script
- 8.4:Script without closing script
- 8.5:Window name payloads
- 8.6:Assignable protocol
- 8.7:Source maps to create pingbacks
- 8.8:New redirection sink
- 8.9:JavaScript comments
- 8.10:New lines
- 8.11:Whitespace
- 8.12:Dynamic imports
- 8.13:XHTML namespace in XML
- 8.14:SVG uploads
- 8.15:SVG use elements
- 8.16:HTML entities
- 8.17:Events
- 8.18:XSS in hidden inputs
- 8.19:Popovers
- 8.20:Summary
- 9:Credits
- 1:Chapter one - Introduction
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