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Complete Web Application Hacking & Penetration Testing
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Complete Web Application Hacking & Penetration Testing

Hacking web applications, hacking websites, bug bounty & penetration testing in my ethical hacking course to be Hacker
Last updated 11/2026
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What you'll learn

  • Ethical hacking involves a hacker agreeing with an organization or individual who authorizes the hacker to levy cyber attacks on a system.
  • Becoming an ethical hacker involves learning at least one programming language and having a working knowledge of other common languages like Python, SQL, C++
  • Many hackers use the Linux operating system (OS) because Linux is a free and open-source OS, meaning that anyone can modify it. It’s easy to access.
  • Ethical hacking is legal because the hacker has full, expressed permission to test the vulnerabilities of a system
  • The Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification exam supports and tests the knowledge of auditors, security officers, site administrators, security.
  • Passing the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam indicates that the credentialed individual is an expert in the governance of information security
  • The different types of hackers include white hat hackers who are ethical hackers and are authorized to hack systems, black hat hackers who are cybercriminals.
  • Penetration testing, or pen testing, is the process of attacking an enterprise's network to find any vulnerabilities that could be present to be patched.
  • There are many types of penetration testing. Internal penetration testing tests an enterprise's internal network.
  • Penetration tests have five different stages. Security experts will also gather intelligence on the company's system to better understand the target
  • Advanced Web Application Penetration Testing
  • Terms, standards, services, protocols and technologies
  • Setting up Virtual Lab Environment
  • Software and Hardware Requirements
  • Modern Web Applications
  • Web Application Architectures
  • Web Application Hosting
  • Web Application Attack Surfaces
  • Web Application Defenses
  • Core technologies
  • Web Application Proxies
  • Whois Lookup
  • DNS Information
  • Subdomains
  • Discovering Web applications on the Same Server
  • Web Crawling and Spidering - Directory Structure
  • Authentication Testing
  • Brute Force and Dictionary Attacks
  • Cracking Passwords
  • CAPTCHA
  • Identifying Hosts or Subdomains Using DNS
  • Authorization Testing
  • Session Management Testing
  • Input Validation Testing
  • Testing for Weak Cryptography
  • Client Side Testing
  • Browser Security Headers
  • Using Known Vulnerable Components
  • Bypassing Cross Origin Resource Sharing
  • XML External Entity Attack
  • Attacking Unrestricted File Upload Mechanisms
  • Server-Side Request Forgery
  • Creating a Password List: Crunch
  • Attacking Insecure Login Mechanisms
  • Attacking Improper Password Recovery Mechanisms
  • Attacking Insecure CAPTCHA Implementations
  • Inband SQL Injection over a Search Form
  • Inband SQL Injection over a Select Form
  • Time Based Blind SQL Injection
  • ethical hacking
  • cyber security
  • android hacking
  • hacking
  • Ethical Intelligence
  • Ethical Hacker

Course content

13 sections • 94 lectures • 9h 43m total length
  • What We Covered In This Course?3:24

    Advanced Web App Penetration Testing, Ethical Hacking, and Exploitation Techniques

  • Current Issues of Web Security8:53

    Top 10 Challenges of Cyber Security Faced in 2021

    • Ransomware attacks.

    • IoT attacks.

    • Cloud attacks.

    • Phishing attacks.

    • Blockchain and cryptocurrency attacks.

    • Software vulnerabilities.

    • Machine learning and AI attacks.

    • BYOD policies.

    • Insider attacks

    • Outdated hardware

  • Principles of Testing5:30

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  • Types of Security Testing9:43

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  • Guidelines for Application Security5:57

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  • Laws and Ethic2:53

    Cybersecurity Law and Ethics. Effective cybersecurity is essential for law firm operations, for regulatory compliance and for keeping a good reputation, but it requires a familiarity with the principles of secure IT.

  • FAQ regarding Ethical Hacking4:39

    FAQ regarding Ethical Hacking on Udemy:


  • FAQ regarding Penetration Testing1:45

    FAQ regarding Penetration Testing on Udemy:

Requirements

  • 4 GB (Gigabytes) of RAM or higher (8 GB recommended)
  • 64-bit system processor is mandatory
  • 10 GB or more disk space
  • Enable virtualization technology on BIOS settings, such as “Intel-VTx”
  • Modern Browsers like Google Chrome (latest), Mozilla Firefox (latest), Microsoft Edge (latest)
  • All items referenced in this course are Free
  • A computer for installing all the free software and tools needed to practice
  • A strong desire to understand hacker tools and techniques
  • Be able to download and install all the free software and tools needed to practice
  • A strong work ethic, willingness to learn and plenty of excitement about the back door of the digital world
  • Nothing else! It’s just you, your computer and your ambition to get started today

Description

Welcome to the "Complete Web Application Hacking & Penetration Testing" course

Go past the basics of XSS and SQL injection into a full web application penetration test: authentication, session management, blind and time-based injection, cryptography, and real CVEs.

A real web application assessment doesn't stop at finding a reflected XSS and moving on. It covers how login and logout actually fail, how sessions get hijacked, every variant of SQL and command injection, what a weak implementation of HTTPS or local storage gives away, and whether the app is running a component with a known CVE against it. This course is built around that full scope, not a tour of the most famous vulnerability types.

You build your lab with Kali Linux, Metasploitable, and BeeBox, then start with reconnaissance: WHOIS, DNS enumeration with Fierce and theHarvester, crawling, and Google hacking, plus a dedicated look at bug bounty work. You cover the technology a modern web app runs on, from HTML and the DOM to HTTP, HTTPS, and cookies, and set up Burp Suite to intercept both HTTP and HTTPS traffic. From there you test authentication and authorization (insecure login, logout, password recovery, and CAPTCHA, plus path traversal and file inclusion), session management (secure cookies, session fixation, CSRF), and input validation in depth: reflected, stored, and DOM-based XSS, every major SQL injection technique including blind and time-based, automated with SQLmap, command injection, and XML, SMTP, and PHP injection. You finish with cryptography attacks like Heartbleed, known vulnerable components such as Drupageddon, and other techniques including CORS bypass, XXE, unrestricted file upload, and SSRF.

Whether you've already covered the fundamentals of web hacking and want the advanced techniques a real assessment requires, or you're preparing for bug bounty work where shallow testing doesn't find the bugs that pay, this course takes you deep into a single area instead of wide across many. You should be comfortable with basic web hacking concepts like XSS and SQL injection before starting. Enroll today and begin with lesson one.

What Skills Will You Learn in This Course?

Lab and Reconnaissance: Build your lab, then gather intelligence with WHOIS, DNS enumeration, crawling, and Google hacking, plus an introduction to bug bounty work.

Modern Web Application Technology: Client-server architecture and the core technologies, HTML, CSS, the DOM, JavaScript, HTTP, HTTPS, and cookies, with Burp Suite set up to intercept both.

Authentication and Authorization Testing: Attacking insecure login, logout, password recovery, and CAPTCHA mechanisms, plus path traversal and local and remote file inclusion.

Session Management Testing: Secure and HttpOnly cookies, session ID issues, session fixation, and stealing or bypassing anti-CSRF tokens.

Input Validation and Injection: Reflected, stored, and DOM-based XSS, in-band, error-based, boolean-based, and time-based blind SQL injection, SQLmap automation, command injection, and XML, SMTP, and PHP injection.

Cryptography and Known Vulnerable Components: Testing weak cryptography with the Heartbleed attack and insecure HTML5 local storage, and exploiting known CVEs like Drupageddon and SQLite Manager vulnerabilities.

Other Real-World Attacks: Bypassing CORS, XML External Entity (XXE) attacks, unrestricted file upload, and Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF).

Who Is This Course For?

Experienced Web Hacking Students: Learners who've covered XSS and SQL injection basics and want the depth a real assessment needs.

Bug Bounty Hunters: People who want the advanced techniques, blind injection, auth flaws, known CVEs, that find bugs shallow testing misses.

Aspiring Penetration Testers: Learners building toward web application penetration testing as a specialization.

Security Analysts: Defenders who want to understand advanced attack techniques in order to recognize and prevent them.

Developers: People who want to see exactly how authentication, session management, and input validation fail in practice.

You should already be comfortable with basic web hacking concepts, such as what XSS and SQL injection are, before starting. The course moves quickly into advanced technique and doesn't re-teach the fundamentals from zero.

Why Learn Advanced Web Application Penetration Testing?

Automated scanners catch the obvious vulnerabilities. The ones that actually pay in bug bounty, and the ones that matter most in a real assessment, are usually the ones that need manual testing: blind SQL injection, broken authentication logic, session handling mistakes, and known CVEs in outdated components.

These skills apply directly to web application penetration tester and bug bounty roles, where depth matters more than coverage. Being able to find and exploit what an automated scan misses is what separates a basic tester from one clients and bounty programs pay for.

Why Choose This Course?

Depth over a tour of the basics. Every major XSS and SQL injection technique, including blind and time-based, gets its own hands-on lesson, not a single example.

Authentication and session management covered in full. Insecure login, logout, password recovery, CAPTCHA, session fixation, and CSRF are each treated as their own attack surface.

Real CVEs, not just technique names. You exploit known vulnerabilities like Drupageddon and SQLite Manager's file inclusion and XSS flaws, against real version numbers.

Modern attack surface included. CORS bypass, XXE, SSRF, and unrestricted file upload sit alongside the classic vulnerabilities.

Bug bounty context built in. A dedicated section connects the techniques in this course to how bug bounty hunting actually works.

Free tools only. The course uses free tools and platforms, so you don't need to buy any tool or application.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to know the basics of web hacking before this course?

Yes. This course assumes you already understand concepts like XSS and SQL injection at a basic level and moves into advanced technique, blind injection, authentication flaws, known CVEs, rather than re-teaching the fundamentals.

What's the difference between this course and a beginner web hacking course?

A beginner course introduces the main vulnerability types and how to find them. This course goes deeper into each one, covering blind and time-based SQL injection, detailed authentication and session attacks, real CVEs, and additional techniques like XXE and SSRF that beginner courses usually skip.

Does the course cover blind SQL injection?

Yes. Boolean-based and time-based blind SQL injection are both covered, manually and with SQLmap, alongside in-band and error-based injection.

Does the course cover session management attacks?

Yes. Secure and HttpOnly cookies, session ID issues, session fixation, and stealing or bypassing anti-CSRF tokens are all covered.

Does the course cover real CVEs?

Yes. You exploit Drupal's Drupageddon SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2014-3704) and several SQLite Manager vulnerabilities, against real, documented CVE numbers.

What is the Heartbleed attack?

Heartbleed was a vulnerability in OpenSSL that let an attacker read portions of a server's memory, potentially exposing private keys and sensitive data, without leaving a trace in normal logs. This course covers it as part of testing for cryptographic weaknesses.

Does the course cover bug bounty hunting?

Yes, with a dedicated section connecting the advanced techniques in this course to how bug bounty programs and hunting actually work.

Do I need to buy any tools?

No. The course uses free tools and platforms, including Burp Suite, SQLmap, and Commix.

Is it legal to practice these techniques?

Practicing on your own lab or on systems you're authorized to test is legal. Using these techniques against systems you don't own or have permission to test is not. This course is built entirely around a lab you set up yourself.

Why Learn Advanced Web Application Hacking with Muharrem Aydın?

Muharrem Aydın brings years of teaching and real-world experience to this course, with a practical, no-fluff approach: clear explanations, real examples, and every topic in a logical order. You study at your own pace and always have a way to ask when something is unclear.

Clear Video and Audio: See clearly, hear clearly, and learn without distractions.

Lifetime Access: Come back to any lesson whenever you want to review a topic.

Fast, Friendly Q&A Support: Ask your questions in the course Q&A section.

Certificate of Completion: Download your Udemy certificate when you finish the course.

Start Finding What Scanners Miss Today

Go beyond the basics: blind injection, broken authentication, session attacks, real CVEs, and the techniques that actually find bugs.

Enroll today in the Complete Web Application Hacking & Penetration Testing course and take your next step toward a career in web application security.

Important: This course is created for educational purposes. Use what you learn only on systems you are authorized to test.

Who this course is for:

  • Anybody who is interested in learning web application hacking
  • Anybody who is interested in learning penetration testing
  • Anybody who wants to become a penetration tester
  • Anybody who wants to learn how hackers hack web applications and websites
  • Anyone who are developing web so that they can create secure web applications