What is Open Redirection & Broken Link Hijacking
Hello everyone, hope you all are doing good. Today I have two interesting topics for you. Open Redirection (also known as URL Redirection) and Broken Link Hijacking . I have selected two vulnerabilities because they are not that complex and need very little explanation . So, let us dive into our maze and learn how to find them. What is URL URL simply stands for Uniform Resource Locator . It is a kind of address for a particular web page , and no two web pages can have the same URL . There can be more than one URL in a web application and each URL points to a web page . Here this web page is made up of HTML, CSS, and any programming language of choice and is hosted on a web server . Now if the URL is not pointing to anything then it has no page attached to it to show us. URL Redirection So, now you may understand what URL Redirection could be. We just make the URL of a web page redirect to the page that it is not destined for. Let me put this simply. Think of a URL a...