Security Tips
Security Tip: Help Password Managers Get It Right!
[Tip #134] Laravel's password helper has a great little feature you may have missed: it can generate browser-friendly password rules automatically! 🤓
Stephen Rees-Carter
Friendly Hacker, Speaker, and PHP & Laravel Security Specialist.🕵️ I hack stuff on stage for fun. 😈
In Depth
In Depth: From Serialised String to RCE!
[In Depth #42] unserialize() looks harmless - it just rebuilds your data - but feed it the wrong string and it'll rebuild an attacker's object, quietly turning Laravel's own code into remote code execution. Let's pull a real RCE apart. 😈
Security Tips
Security Tip: Do You Know Your SameSite Cookies?
[Tip #133] SameSite=Lax is the Laravel default, and it quietly protects you from CSRF. So why do I keep finding SameSite=None in the apps I audit? Let's talk about what it does and how to use it safely.
In Depth
In Depth: Three Reasonable Decisions, One Critical Vulnerability
[In Depth #41] What do you get when you combine an API, SameSite=None, and a Session cookie?
Security Tips
Security Tip: Have You Heard Of Slopsquatting?
[Tip #132] Your AI agent hallucinates a package name, confidently installs it, and keeps working - except an attacker registered that exact name, packed with malware. Welcome to slopsquatting.
Security Tips
Security Tip: Safely Updating Dependencies
[Tip #131] Updating packages used to be a no-brainer, but now you need to be careful. Updates may be malicious. But not updating leaves vulns unpatched. So what do you do??? 🤷
In Depth
In Depth: Version Numbers Are Vanity Labels
[In Depth #40] We trust version numbers to mean a specific, fixed release - but they're really just labels pointing at a commit, and an attacker can quietly move them. Let's dig into tag hijacking, the attack behind tj-actions and Laravel-Lang. 😈
Security Tips
Security Tip: Secure Your Repositories with Laravel Moat
[Tip #130] Laravel Moat is a new tool that assesses the security posture of your GitHub repositories and recommends ways to tighten the controls protecting them.
Security Tips
Security Tip: The Signed URL Trap
[Tip #129] I love Signed URLs, but there is one very subtle trap you can accidentally fall into...
In Depth
In Depth: Don't Trust Public Livewire Properties
[In Depth #39] Public Properties may look like PHP class properties, but they're really hidden form fields, just waiting for your input... 😈
Security Tips
Security Tip: Stop Putting Actions on GET Requests!
[Tip #128] Do you know the difference between GET and POST requests, and why it's so important that GET requests only ever retrieve data?
Security Tips
Security Tip: Your JWT Might Be a Forever Key!
[Tip #127] Without an `exp` claim, a JWT can remain valid forever, turning a leaked token into permanent access.