Bypassing WAFs and cracking XOR with Hackvertor

Published

2023-10-02 14:38

Collected

2026-07-27 07:17

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id: 5519
title: "Bypassing WAFs and cracking XOR with Hackvertor"
source_domain: portswigger.net
source_url: "https://portswigger.net/research/bypassing-wafs-and-cracking-xor-with-hackvertor"
published_at: "2023-10-02T14:38:00Z"
tags: ["burp-suite", "portswigger", "tooling", "hackvertor", "encoding", "waf-bypass", "xor"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/5519"
lang: en
---

# Bypassing WAFs and cracking XOR with Hackvertor

## Summary

Gareth Heyes showcases Hackvertor's tag-based encoding for chaining multiple conversion layers inside Burp requests, demonstrating a Cloudflare WAF bypass and XOR cracking.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** portswigger.net
- **Published:** 2023-10-02T14:38:00Z
- **Original:** https://portswigger.net/research/bypassing-wafs-and-cracking-xor-with-hackvertor
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/5519