June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
264 pages
7h 4m
English

HTTP parameter pollution (HPP) is the process of manipulating how a website treats the parameters it receives during HTTP requests. The vulnerability occurs when an attacker injects extra parameters into a request and the target website trusts them, leading to unexpected behavior. HPP bugs can happen on the server side or on the client side. On the client side, which is usually your browser, you can see the effect of your tests. In many cases, HPP vulnerabilities depend on how server-side code uses values passed as parameters, which are controlled by an attacker. For this reason, finding these vulnerabilities might require ...
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