Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques 2013

Every year the security community produces a stunning number of new Web hacking techniques that are published in various white papers, blog posts, magazine articles, mailing list emails, conference presentations, etc. Within the thousands of pages are the latest ways to attack websites, Web browsers, Web proxies, and their mobile platform equivalents. Beyond individual vulnerabilities with CVE numbers or system compromises, we are solely focused on new and creative methods of Web-based attack. Now in its eighth year, the Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques list encourages information sharing, provides a centralized knowledge base, and recognizes researchers who contribute excellent work. Past Top 10s and the number of new attack techniques discovered in each year:
2006 (65), 2007 (83), 2008 (70), 2009 (82), 2010 (69), 2011 (51) and 2012 (56).

Phase 1: Open community voting for the final 15 [Jan 23-Feb 3]
Each attack technique (listed alphabetically) receives points depending on how high the entry is ranked in each ballot. For example, an entry in position #1 will be given 15 points, position #2 will get 14 points, position #3 gets 13 points, and so on down to 1 point. At the end all points from all ballots will be tabulated to ascertain the top 15 overall. Comment with your vote!

Phase 2: Panel of Security Experts Voting [Feb 4-Feb 11]
From the result of the open community voting, the final 15 Web Hacking Techniques will be ranked based on votes by a panel of security experts. (Panel to be announced soon!) Using the exact same voting process as phase 1, the judges will rank the final 20 based on novelty, impact, and overall pervasiveness. Once tabulation is completed, we’ll have the Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2013!

Complete 2013 List (in no particular order):

1. Tor Hidden-Service Passive De-Cloaking
2. Top 3 Proxy Issues That No One Ever Told You
3. Gravatar Email Enumeration in JavaScript
4. Pixel Perfect Timing Attacks with HTML5
5. Million Browser Botnet Video Briefing
   Slideshare
6. Auto-Complete Hack by Hiding Filled in Input Fields with CSS
7. Site Plagiarizes Blog Posts, Then Files DMCA Takedown on Originals
8. The Case of the Unconventional CSRF Attack in Firefox
9. Ruby on Rails Session Termination Design Flaw
10. HTML5 Hard Disk Filler™ API
11. Aaron Patterson – Serialized YAML Remote Code Execution
12. Fireeye – Arbitrary reading and writing of the JVM process
13. Timothy Morgan – What You Didn’t Know About XML External Entity Attacks
14. Angelo Prado, Neal Harris, Yoel Gluck – BREACH
15. James Bennett – Django DOS
16. Phil Purviance – Don’t Use Linksys Routers
17. Mario Heiderich – Mutation XSS
18. Timur Yunusov and Alexey Osipov – XML Out of Band Data Retrieval
19. Carlos Munoz – Bypassing Internet Explorer’s Anti-XSS Filter
20. Zach Cutlip – Remote Code Execution in Netgear routers
21. Cody Collier – Exposing Verizon Wireless SMS History
22. Compromising an unreachable Solr Serve
23. Finding Weak Rails Security Tokens
24. Ashar Javad Attack against Facebook’s password reset process.
25. Father/Daughter Team Finds Valuable Facebook Bug
26. Hacker scans the internet
27. Eradicating DNS Rebinding with the Extended Same-Origin Policy
28. Large Scale Detection of DOM based XSS
29. Struts 2 OGNL Double Evaluation RCE
30. Lucky 13 Attack
31. Weaknesses in RC4

Leave a comment if you know of some techniques that we’ve missed, and we’ll add them in up until the submission deadline.

Final 15 (in no particular order):

1. Million Browser Botnet Video Briefing
   Slideshare
2. Timur Yunusov and Alexey Osipov – XML Out of Band Data Retrieval
3. Hacker scans the internet
4. HTML5 Hard Disk Filler™ API
5. Eradicating DNS Rebinding with the Extended Same-Origin Policy
6. Aaron Patterson – Serialized YAML Remote Code Execution
7. Mario Heiderich – Mutation XSS
8. Timothy Morgan – What You Didn’t Know About XML External Entity Attacks
9. Tor Hidden-Service Passive De-Cloaking
10. Auto-Complete Hack by Hiding Filled in Input Fields with CSS
11. Pixel Perfect Timing Attacks with HTML5
12. Large Scale Detection of DOM based XSS
13. Angelo Prado, Neal Harris, Yoel Gluck – BREACH
14. Weaknesses in RC4
15. Lucky 13 Attack

Prizes [to be announced]

1. The winner of this year’s top 10 will receive a prize!
2. After the open community voting process, two survey respondents will be chosen at random to receive a prize.

The Top 10

1. Mario Heiderich – Mutation XSS
2. Angelo Prado, Neal Harris, Yoel Gluck – BREACH
3. Pixel Perfect Timing Attacks with HTML5
4. Lucky 13 Attack
5. Weaknesses in RC4
6. Timur Yunusov and Alexey Osipov – XML Out of Band Data Retrieval
7. Million Browser Botnet Video Briefing
   Slideshare
8. Large Scale Detection of DOM based XSS
9. Tor Hidden-Service Passive De-Cloaking
10. HTML5 Hard Disk Filler™ API

Honorable Mention

11. Aaron Patterson – Serialized YAML Remote Code Execution