Security Tips
[Tip #104] It's easy for type juggling to sneak into authorisation callbacks, especially when types are ambiguous, and if you're not careful, you may be leaving a massive hole waiting to be exploited! 😱
In Depth
[In Depth #33] Let's explore a number of common ways developers fail authorisation in Laravel apps, and what you need to watch out for so you don't make the same mistakes!
Security Tips
[Tip #99] Let me tell you a story about a time when a single missing character allowed me to escalate my privileges and gain admin access, despite all the protections designed to stop me! 😈
In Depth
[In Depth #31] Here are the Top 10 security issues I've found during my security audits, highlighting the areas we as a community need to improve our security.
In Depth
[In Depth #30] In the final part of the series, we finish our code searches and spend some time reading the code - which really pays off in terms of finding juicy vulnerabilities to exploit and report.
In Depth
[In Depth #28] Continuing our Laravel Security Audit and Penetration Test, we're looking into configs and dependences, and following threads to discover 4 CRITICAL vulnerabilities!
Security Tips
[Tip #80] It's incredibly common to find hardcoded domains used for identifying admins, however this also makes it trivial to escalate privileges to admin!
Security Tips
[Tip#75] As part of the simplification of the app structure in Laravel 11, the Request Authorisation and Validation methods are no longer available on the controller - here's how you get it back.
In Depth
[InDepth#18] Let's take a walk through the first half of my "Th1nk Lik3 a H4cker" talk from Laracon EU & US. We'll explore the vulnerabilities behind each challenge and what I was trying to teach.
Security Tips
[Tip#50] Watch out when you mix Resource Controllers and Authorisation with custom Controller Actions and custom routes... you may find you're lacking authorisation without realising it!
Security Tips
[Tip#48] We write tests for everything else, so why not write tests for authorisation as well?
Security Tips
[Tip#33] We can easily restrict access to files on remote storage like S3, but what about local files?