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What The PHUZZ?! Finding 0-Days In PHP Apps wt Coverage-guided Fuzzing

Talkat Nullcon Goa 2025 · 2025-03-01..03-02· [security, php]
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Open-source PHUZZ brings coverage-guided fuzzing to PHP apps by running a Python fuzzer, collecting endpoints from a browser HAR, and instrumenting targets via uops hooks plus Xdebug/PECL coverage through PHP auto_prepend_file. It fuzzes parameter values (keeping names), mutates inputs, disables auth/CSR checks to reach deeper code paths, and detects seven vulnerability classes. Evaluation pulls 183 popular WordPress plugins (115 actually fuzzed), yields 20+ potential issues and two CVEs, and outperforms BurpSuite/ZAP/WFuzz on these benchmarks.

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  1. 0:00Introduction and background
  2. 3:33Fuzzing design challenges
  3. 11:30Implementation of PHUZZ
  4. 24:09Experiments and findings
  5. 27:40Analysis, conclusion, and Q&A
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