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HTTP Parameter Pollution (HPP) means to pollute the HTTP parameters of a web application for achieving a specific malicious task. It refers to manipulating how a website treats parameters it receives during HTTP requests. It changes a website’s behaviour from its intended one. HTTP\
parameter pollution is a simple kind of attack but it is an effective one.
When you pollute any parameter the code runs only on the server-side which is invisible to use, but we can see the results on our screen. The process in between is a black box.
For example, there is a URL https://www.anybank.com/send which has three parameters :
When this URL will be proceed a transaction of 10000 it will be deducted from accountC rather than accountA. This is how you manipulate the parameters in **HTTP Parameter Pollution** attack. Although the scope of this vulnerability is not limited only to **GET** request you can also perform this attack on a **POST** based request. You can try this vulnerability on many places like password change, 2FA, comments, profile photo upload, on a parameter where API key is passed, OTP etc.
When you manipulate any parameter, it’s manipulation depends on how each web technology is parsing their parameters. You can identify web technologies using “[Wappalyzer](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wappalyzer/)”. Below is the screenshot of some technologies and their parameter parsing.Technologies and their parameter parsing
So what happened here is the back-end application took the value of first “**email**” parameter to generate an OTP and used the value of second “**email**” parameter to supply the value, which means an OTP of shrey….@gmail.com was sent to radhika….@gmail.com.
**NOTE :** Here in an image on 4th step where I received an OTP to radhika….@gmail.com I was confused because the message said Hi Radhika, so I thought that the parameter is not polluted and the OTP was for radhika….@gmail.com but when I tried the OTP on shrey….@gmail.com it worked.
In [**this writeup**](https://github.com/google/google-ctf/tree/master/2023/web-under-construction/solution) you can see how a HTTP query like `a=1&a=2` will be interpreted differently by Flask and PHP running on an Apache HTTP Server. In Flask, the parameter will be `1` (first occurrence) while in PHP it will be `2` (last occurrence).
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