Guide to Finding and Exploiting Web Cache Poisoning

Why you should learn Web Cache Poisoning? | Bug Bounty Essentials by Karthikeyan Nagaraj

Web Cache Poisoning is an advanced web vulnerability where an attacker injects harmful data into a website’s cache, allowing malicious content to be served to unsuspecting users. This vulnerability targets caching systems like reverse proxies or content delivery networks (CDNs), tricking them into storing and delivering a poisoned version of a web page.

In this guide, we’ll cover the process of finding and exploiting Web Cache Poisoning, explain how it works, and offer techniques for ethical testing. Whether you’re a bug bounty hunter or a penetration tester, this guide will help you understand how to identify and exploit this fascinating vulnerability.

Table of Contents

1. Understanding Web Cache Poisoning
2. Setting Up Your Tools
3. Step-by-Step Process to Find Web Cache Poisoning
4. Exploiting Web Cache Poisoning
5. Mitigation and Prevention

1. Understanding Web Cache Poisoning

Before diving into the technical steps, let’s first understand what Web Cache…