Monthly Archives: July 2018

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How I was able to delete 13k+ Microsoft Translator projects

Introduction Sometime back I was hunting for Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Web services, as Microsoft has large online infrastructure, finding a vulnerability which could lead to Microsoft hall of fame for security researchers wasn’t difficult. While browsing around their online services, one of their services, Microsoft hub translator caught my attention. Microsoft hub translator is and I quote:  “Microsoft Translator Hub empowers businesses and communities to build, train, and deploy customized automatic language translation systems—-”.  I signed up and started looking for vulnerabilities and found critical level vulnerability through which I was able to delete All Microsoft hub translator 13000+ projects. As the vulnerability is fixed now, I’m sharing […]

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Second Order SQL Injection Explained with Example

Introduction Second Order SQL injection is an application security vulnerability, it occurs when user-submitted values are stored in the database, and then it gets used by some other functionality in the application without escaping or filtering the data. Usually, data from external sources (user supplied) is considered dangerous and is escaped/filtered. Developers trust the data coming from the database. This behavior is similar to a Stored Cross Site Scripting attack. Second Order SQL Injection requires more knowledge of how submitted values are later used in order to perform successfully second-order SQL injection. Still confused? follow the example below:- Second Order […]