XXE in Modern Web Applications: Where XML Still Hides in APIs, Uploads, SOAP, and SAML
XXE still matters wherever applications parse XML. Review SOAP, SAML, SVG, office files, feeds, DTDs, XInclude, schemas, and parser egress.
Expert articles on web security, vulnerabilities, and best practices
XXE still matters wherever applications parse XML. Review SOAP, SAML, SVG, office files, feeds, DTDs, XInclude, schemas, and parser egress.
Understand why business logic flaws require application context, then test workflow order, pricing, roles, race conditions, quotas, recovery paths, and state transitions.
Find shadow and zombie APIs by checking documentation artifacts, frontend code, subdomains, certificate history, gateways, and old versions.
Secure GraphQL APIs by controlling introspection, query depth, cost, batching, resolver authorization, error detail, uploads, and resource consumption.
Understand why SPF often fails after forwarding, how DKIM can preserve DMARC alignment, what mailing lists change, and where SRS and ARC fit.
Before buying or reusing a domain, inspect registration, DNS, subdomains, dangling services, certificates, CAA, email authentication, and reputation.
Separate public-surface scanning from tenant isolation testing. Learn how to test cross-tenant authorization, roles, caches, files, jobs, and integrations.
Respond to a Google Safe Browsing warning by confirming the issue, finding the root cause, cleaning the site, validating externally, and only then requesting review.
Find and secure staging, preview, demo, and forgotten subdomains before they become a weaker route into production systems or data.
Understand how CDN and origin disagreements lead to cache poisoning, web cache deception, tenant leakage, and unsafe cache-key decisions.