Research Worth Reading Week 28/2025

Published: 14 Jul 2025

A spicy week with double Sam Curry!

🔐 Exploiting an ORM Injection to Steal Cryptocurrency from an Online Shooter

A great example of ORM-injection/leak exploitation: https://blog.p1.gs/writeup/2025/07/06/Hacking-a-crypto-game/

💣 Pre-Auth SQL Injection to RCE - Fortinet FortiWeb Fabric Connector (CVE-2025-25257)

Another great write-up from WatchTowr, this time on a SQL injection to RCE in FortiWeb’s Fabric Connector: https://labs.watchtowr.com/pre-auth-sql-injection-to-rce-fortinet-fortiweb-fabric-connector-cve-2025-25257/

🪟 Abusing Windows, .NET Quirks, and Unicode Normalization to Exploit DNN (DotNetNuke)

The Assetnote team is back at it with another great find—especially worth reading if you’re into C# code review: https://slcyber.io/assetnote-security-research-center/abusing-windows-net-quirks-and-unicode-normalization-to-exploit-dnn-dotnetnuke/

🍔 Would You Like an IDOR with That? Leaking 64 million McDonald’s Job Applications

You’ve probably already come across this one, but just in case: https://ian.sh/mcdonalds

📚 Why XSS Persists in This Frameworks Era?

A well-written and detailed analysis on why we still have XSS: https://flatt.tech/research/posts/why-xss-persists-in-this-frameworks-era/

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