Ah yes, the origin of many memes. Cookies are an essential tool for modern websites to function. Tiny pieces of data, these are created by a website and stored on the user's computer.
You'll see notifications like the above on most websites these days. Websites use these cookies to store user-specific behaviours like items in their shopping cart or session IDs.
In the web application, we're going to exploit, you'll notice cookies store login information like the below! Yikes!
Cookies are not permanent storage solutions like databases. Some cookies such as session ID's will clear when the browser is closed, others, however, last considerably longer. This is determined by the "Expiry" timer that is set when the cookie is created.
Cookies can be set in various website programming languages. For example, Javascript, PHP or Python to name a few. The following web application is developed using Python's Flask, so it is fitting to use it as an example.hURL – hexadecimal and URL encoder decoder
hURL – hexadecimal and URL encoder decoder
hURL is a small utility that can encode and decode between multiple formats.
How to Install ?
sudo apt-get install hurl
How to Use ?
For Help CommandhURL --help
hurl Usage Examples
Decode the given base64-encoded string (-b “S2FsaSBMaW51eAo=”) and display the result.
hURL -b "S2FsaSBMaW51eAo="
hURL -b "Yg%3D%3D"
hURL -b
"SGVsbG8gZ3V5cywgbXlzZWxmIGt1bWFyIEF0dWwgSmFpc3dhbCwgcGxlYXNlI
GRvbid0IGZvcmdldCB0byBzdWJzY3JpYmUgYnV0dG9u"
hURL -b "gAN9cQAoWAkAAABzZXNzaW9uSWRxAVggAAAANTlhZjRlM2U0MGMzNDJ
kMDllNDQ1OTI0NjZkYWZmOGRxAlgLAAAAZW5jb2RlZGZsYWdxA1gYA
AAAVEhNe2dvb2Rfb2xkX2Jhc2U2NF9odWh9cQR1Lg=="
Explain :
-b for --base64 => base64 decode
Video Tutorial :- Soon..
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