XSS — Bypassing WAF with Hex Overflow

Syed Mushfik Hasan Tahsin shares his experience of bypassing the BIG IP Local Traffic Manager (F5 Networks) Web Application Firewall using Hex Overflow. He describes how the firewall blocked common payloads and how he leveraged hexadecimal overflows to generate different characters, ultimately bypassing the WAF by crafting carefully encoded inputs. This technique allowed him to reach normally restricted functionalities in a unique and unanticipated way.