This update brings significant new content, including dedicated pages for new vulnerability classes, fresh exploitation techniques for existing topics, and numerous quality-of-life improvements across the knowledge base.

📚 New Vulnerability Pages

• External Variable Modification: Complete new section covering PHP extract() function vulnerabilities, variable pollution, and security implications
• Reverse Proxy Misconfigurations: Covering common Nginx misconfigurations.

🔄 Enhanced Sections

• Command Injection:

  • Added worstfit technique for argument injection
  • Enhanced with fullwidth character bypass methods

• CSV Injection:

  • New Google Sheets exploitation section
  • Added formulas like IMPORTXML, IMPORTRANGE for data exfiltration
  • Enhanced with remote resource access techniques

• File Inclusion:

  • New lightyear tool for blind file read primitives
  • Enhanced PHP filter exploitation techniques

• Headless Browser:

  • New CVE exploitation section
  • Enhanced debugging port security implications
  • Added insecure flags and PDF rendering attack vectors

• Java Deserialization:

  • Comprehensive JSON deserialization section (Jackson etc)
  • Enhanced with multiple attack vectors and exploitation techniques

• SQL Injection:

  • New PDO Prepared Statements section

🐛 Bug Fixes & Corrections

• Fixed numerous formatting inconsistencies
• Corrected broken internal links
• Updated deprecated tool references
• Standardized code block formatting
• Standardized bullet points and list formatting across all sections
• Automated markdown linting detection now runs on all pull requests and commits.

🌐 What's Changed

• csv injection: google sheets formulas by @noraj in #759
• Update YOUTUBE.md by @Tednoob17 in #765
• Add missing -r flag for xxe excel file rebuilding with zip command by @sehraramiz in #768
• Fix extra parentheses in MySQL Injection.md by @DoongPark in #769
• FIX broken link by @Diebbo in #772
• Add support for || (concatenation) operator in PostgreSQL for time based SQL injection by @florianamette in #779
• Update README.md by @stenzzor in #781

👌New Contributors

• @Tednoob17 made their first contribution in #765
• @sehraramiz made their first contribution in #768
• @DoongPark made their first contribution in #769
• @Diebbo made their first contribution in #772
• @florianamette made their first contribution in #779
• @stenzzor made their first contribution in #781

Full Changelog: 4.1...4.2

🎉 Major Milestone: 8 Years of Progress & a New Beginning

After 8 years since this project first came to life, today marks an incredible milestone
The first release of PayloadsAllTheThings as an Ebook on Leanpub.

Over the years, we've grown, learned, and built something amazing together.
This release represents not just how far we’ve come, but also the start of an exciting new chapter.

About the release:

• Most pages have been completely rewritten
• Summaries and links have been fixed
• References are consistently formatted across all pages.
• Updates on the repository will be reflected on the PDF version at every new release

2 years after the latest release, it is time for a new one 🥳
Many pages have been updated with new payloads and descriptions.
Every pages under "Methodology and Resources" have been moved in their own repository (InternalAllTheThings)

This repository is now available as a website with nice features such as a "complete search bar", "dark/light mode", and buttons to share a specific page on your favorite social networks.

The "AllTheThings" family is expanding, check out the other projects

• InternalAllTheThings
• HardwareAllTheThings

A long due release with all the new payloads and techniques from the last 3 years.
Lots of new things happened in the Methodology and Resources folder, check it out if you like Internal Pentesting and Active Directory 😉

PayloadsAllTheThings is now ready for the Kali Linux repository.
You can install it with apt install payloadsallthethings.

Thanks to @g0tmi1k