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WordPress Security Research: A Beginner's Guide
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Join us for a foundational series and unpack the essentials of WordPress vulnerability discovery.
We'll take a first-principles approach and offer a taste of what vulnerability research is, why WordPress is an ideal starting point for beginners, and how you can get involved.
Alex provides a detailed look at the request and response architecture of WordPress and how action and filter hooks create opportunities for vulnerabilities.
Follow along as Alex demonstrates how to exploit a real-world vulnerability and abuse missing authorization in a hooked function.