Preliminary research

ROP for the Web: Smuggling XSS, SQLi and Web Shells Past Every WAF Using Compression Dictionaries

Lenin Alevski · AppSec Village

AI-collected research leads through 6 October 2026, including bounded month-by-month reviews of selected social and community sources from January through September. Unranked, incomplete, not community-vetted, and subject to change.

Conference presentation introducing controlled Compression Dictionary Transport experiments. Companion labs compare visible responses with dictionary-compressed responses under WAF and IDS inspection. The work demonstrates bounded response-inspection gaps and a synthetic compression oracle, rather than every WAF or arbitrary request-injection bypass.

Record

Researcher

Lenin Alevski

Published by

AppSec Village

In the archive

• Collected in the 2026 preliminary research sweep

Related sources

• Code
• Full presentation deck
• Lab demonstration runbook
• Research notes
• Companion write-up

Tags

• encoding
• http
• waf
• waf-bypass
• side-channel
• tooling
• owasp-a05-2021

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