Hack The Box
HTB Certified Web Exploitation Specialist
HTB CWES · Status not verified
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- Exam cost
- $210 USD (historical estimate)
- Questions · time · passing score
- A hands-on, practical exam where candidates perform penetration testing on multiple real-world applications over a 7-day period. A commercial-grade report of findings is required to pass. There are no multiple-choice questions. The passing score is not publicly available.
- Prerequisites
- To be eligible to start the examination process, one must have completed all modules of the “Web Penetration Tester” job-role path 100% first. Each module in the path includes hands-on skills assessments that must be completed to prove understanding of the topics.
- Estimated salary premium
- Not established by comparable evidence
- Renewal requirements
- Cycle not verified · CPE/CEU requirement not verified
- Difficulty
- Not rated
Domains covered
- ** Web application/web service static and dynamic analysis
- Bug Bounty Hunting processes and methodologies
- Information gathering techniques
- Web application
- web service and API vulnerability identification and analysis
- Manual and automated exploitation of various vulnerability classes
- Vulnerability communication and reporting
- Outside-the-box thinking and vulnerability chaining
- Commercial-grade report writing
- Who It’s For
- Junior Web Application Penetration Testers
- Entry level Bug Bounty Hunters
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