Compass Security Blog

Offensive Defense

A sneaky attack to your platform 

Nowadays, web developers rely mostly on well-established frameworks to develop their platform or web sites. These frameworks take care of many vulnerabilities like XSS, SQLi, etc. and give the developers a care-free environment.

However, there is one sneaky weakness that can escape the usual checks quite easily and go undetected: SSRF.

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XSLT Security and Server Side Request Forgery

Nowadays, a growing list of XSLT processors exist with the purpose of transforming XML documents to other formats such as PDF, HTML or SVG. To this end such processors typically offer a powerful set of functionalities – which, from a security point of view, can potentially pose severe risks. Within this post, we highlight some […]

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