Web Apps Intermediate

Web Cache Deception

Trick a cache into storing another user's private, authenticated response by exploiting the gap between how the cache and the origin interpret a URL.

Beaulah Marks 4 lessons

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What you'll learn

Web cache deception (WCD) causes a cache to store a dynamic, user-specific response and serve it to other people. This class covers how caches decide what to store, the path-confusion techniques (delimiters, normalisation, extension mapping), a step-by-step exploit, how WCD differs from cache poisoning, and prevention.

Practice

Pair with exploiting path delimiters to cache a profile page.

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At a glance

Category
Web Apps
Difficulty
Intermediate
Lessons
4 ยท 2 free
Total time
1h
Students
0 enrolled
Tutor
Beaulah Marks
Published
Sep 2026