Authentication Vulnerabilities - Lab #5 Username enumeration via response timing | Long Version

In this video, we cover Lab #5 in the Authentication module of the Web Security Academy. This lab is vulnerable to username enumeration using its response times. To solve the lab, we enumerate a valid username, brute-force this user's password, then access their account page. Your credentials: wiener:peter Candidate usernames: https://portswigger.net/web-security/... Candidate passwords: https://portswigger.net/web-security/... ▬ ✨ Support Me ✨ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Buy my course: https://academy.ranakhalil.com/p/web-... ▬ 📚 Contents of this video 📚 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 00:00​​​ - Introduction 00:11 - Web Security Academy Course (https://bit.ly/30LWAtE) 01:22 - Navigation to the exercise 01:50 - Understand the exercise and make notes about what is required to solve it 02:20 - Exploit the lab 14:47 - Summary 15:09 - Thank You ▬ 🔗 Links 🔗 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Notes.txt document: https://github.com/rkhal101/Web-Secur... Web Security Academy Lab Exercise: https://portswigger.net/web-security/... Rana's Twitter account:   / rana__khalil  

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