💻 eLearnSecurity Certified Web Penetration Tester eXtreme (eWPTX)
The eWPTX is an elite web application penetration testing certification issued by eLearnSecurity (now under INE). It validates deep knowledge of web application architectures, advanced payload construction, custom filter bypasses, XML injections, and bypassing web application firewalls (WAF).
📋 Exam Specifications
- Format: 7 days of practical hands-on web application penetration testing + 7 days for reporting.
- Passing Criteria: Compromise all target flags, document all vulnerabilities, and submit a high-quality report detailing reproduction steps and security recommendations.
- Exam Targets: Multiple interconnected, hardened web platforms and database backends featuring active WAF protection.
🛠️ Core Skills Validated
- Web Application Firewalls (WAF) Bypass: Analyzing WAF rules, double URL encoding, mixed case payloads, and alternative function calls to bypass signature filters.
- Advanced SQL Injection: Performing out-of-band (OOB) SQL injections, time-based queries, and exploiting customized database servers.
- Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Filter Evasion: Crafting complex payloads that bypass HTML entity encodings, length limitations, and character restrictions.
- XML External Entity (XXE): Auditing XML parsers, reading internal files, and executing Server-Side Request Forgery via dynamic entity structures.
- Alternative Protocol Injections: Exploiting XPath injections, LDAP parameter filters, and SMTP mail command parameters.
- Node.js & NoSQL Exploitation: Auditing JavaScript serialization structures, prototype pollution, and NoSQL syntax injections (e.g. MongoDB).