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WAF bypass

Leak Server IP Address

  • Checkout the DNS trail of the hostname. This can be done using Security Trails - The World's Largest Repository of historical DNS data
  • DNS Lookups
    dig example.com
    
  • Options method Sometimes the OPTIONS HTTP methods leaks the IP address of the server behind the WAF.
  • HTTP Headers Try playing around with X-Forwarded-For and similar proxy headers to trigger a different response to the same page.

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