eWPTv2 is a hands-on, professional-level Web Application certification that simulates skills utilized during real-world web app engagements.
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The Web Application Penetration Tester certification (eWPT) assesses a cyber security professional’s web application penetration testing skills. The exam is a skills-based test that requires candidates to perform a real-world web app pentesting simulation.
3 years.
8 hours to answer 50 multiple choices about a lab environment with multiple web apps. Need to achieve at least 70% score to pass it. Results are given immediately on finishing.
Web Application Vulnerability Identification: Techniques for detecting and exploiting common web application vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and cross-site request forgery (CSRF).
Authentication and Session Management: Assessing the security of authentication mechanisms and session management to identify weaknesses and potential exploits.
Web Application Security Best Practices: Understanding secure coding practices and providing recommendations for improving the security posture of web applications.
CMS and Web Frameworks Exploitation: Using advanced methods and tools for exploiting complex vulnerabilities in modern web applications and frameworks.
(April 13, 2024)
The exam is 50 multiple choices about the lab environment, with multiple web apps. It is given 8 hours to complete all questions. You need to achieve at least 70% of correct answers. You will know right away if you pass or fail the exam.
The lab is a browser VPN lab. Personally, I hate the copy-paste mechanism of a web app VPN. Why not give access to other VPN type? It makes hard what it is not hard. It was a nightmare for me because of it.
The way of the exam is that is question-oriented, not like a eCPPTv2 or like a box in HTB, dont try to go hunt all vulnerabilities and root things. Since there are a tons of web apps and not so much time, read first some questions and let them be your guide in the exploration of the lab. If you need to answer about something, attack that something. Also, some questions can be answered together, so pack them up, and, in just one exploration, you can answer a lot of them.
Basic tip: Since its a web app certification, please do a proper nmap scan... You will notice what I'm talking here. Dont find it? "Broaden your senses"...
The exploration is the common web apps vulnerabilities: SQL, XSS, injections of all type, then CMS exploitation and plugins exploitation, sessions hijacking, LFI, directory transversal, etc... Everything you learn in the course of INE. The questions will depend based on a pool of questions, so you will have to exploit what your questions ask for. Again, i suggest doing a question-oriented exam approach.
You can mark questions for later reviewing and questions you are unsure, so you can come back to them after. When you feel you are good or when time is ending, submit the exam and you know right away if you pass or fail the exam. It also comes with a score of topics of all exam, of what you failed or got right!
So, when I felt ready, I submitted and received positive feedback - I passed the exam with a nice score-above the 80%s! 😁😎
This is a good entry-mid level certification.
Has the overall web app landscape and touches in all attack surfaces, without having to mess with more complicated stuff like encodings and filter evasions, like you have to do in real-world web app pentesting (thats maybe more eWTPx alike).
A good thing i liked is that you get right away the result of the exam, without needing to wait for it like in the eCPPTv2 and eMAPT. It would be an awesome lab if it would give the option of a separate VPN without the web-based one.
In the big picture, it's cool, I liked it. I recommend it.
Hope you like it, DM me or reference this if it has helped you!
