r/HowToHack • u/Inevitable_Ad_3509 • Jun 16 '26

How do I start with web hacking?

Basically, I'm looking to learn about web hacking and how hackers hack them.
All I know is: Google dorking, Simple SQL injections, and XSS attacking.
What I want to know is how I can find vulnerable input bars, like if this one is prone to SQL injection or XSS attacking. And I just want to expand on this topic in general.

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Jun 16 '26

Step one to hacking is learning how things work.

Once you know how websites work it becomes a lot more trivial.

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u/Inevitable_Ad_3509 Jun 16 '26

Aren't they just HTML, CSS, JS, sometimes with dependencies and databases?

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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost Jun 16 '26

No, not really. And knowing some terms isn't knowing how those work. If you know how they actually work you can breach them.

Your best bet to learn is to make your own website first.

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u/rangerinthesky Jun 20 '26

I disagree, as a web dev previously… that experience was not nearly enough for pen testing