r/websecurityresearch

11k members
r/websecurityresearch is a subreddit with 11k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses security, web, xss, rce, and vulnerabilities.
A community for sharing and discussing novel web security research.

Popular Themes in r/websecurityresearch

#1
Solution Requests
: "Bypassing GitHub’s OAuth flow"
50 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Middleware everywhere and lots of misconfigurations to fix"
48 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "of-CORS: a framework for hacking internal apps with open CORS via bug bounty"
5 posts
#4
Ideas
: "Introducing CookieMonster: a tool for breaking stateless authentication"
4 posts
#5
Advice Requests
: "How to build custom scanners for web security research automation"
1 post
#6
News
: "HTTP/1.1 must die: the desync endgame"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/websecurityresearch

#1

Security

: "Unexpected Security footguns in Go's parsers"
60 posts
#2

Web

: "Top 10 Web hacking techniques of 2021"
31 posts
#3

Xss

: "Redefining Impossible: Xss without arbitrary JavaScript"
28 posts
#4

Rce

: "The Secret Parameter, LFR, and Potential Rce in NodeJS Apps"
28 posts
#5

Vulnerabilities

: "An Exploration of JSON Interoperability Vulnerabilities"
25 posts
#6

Exploiting

: "Bypassing WAFs with the phantom $Version cookie"
22 posts
#7

Exploit

: "Exploiting Null Byte Buffer Overflow for a $40,000 bounty"
17 posts
#8

Ssrf

: "$31k Ssrf in Facebook"
16 posts
#9

Remote Code Execution

: "Remote Code Execution in cdnjs of Cloudflare"
16 posts
#10

Exploit Development

14 posts

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Yearly
+1k members(13.7%)

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Last updated: July 14, 2026