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In this module of the Junior Penetration Tester learning path, you step into the role of a junior pentester and audit a crypto exchange before it goes live. This web application pentesting module builds core web skills (HTTP, cookies, forms, SQLi, XSS, access control, LFI, and command injection) using the same manual, tool-assisted workflow real engagements demand. You stop poking at ports and services and start thinking like the developer, then systematically breaking every assumption they made. The entire course is built around NeonVault, a realistic multi-container target operated by Ciberbots Security Labs. It looks and feels like a production exchange, complete with live tickers, an order book, a treasury desk, KYC pages, OAuth-style SSO, an admin bot, a Node.js trading API and a corporate LDAP realm. This module covers seven core web vulnerabilities on NeonVault (recon, SQLi, XSS, IDOR, LFI, command injection). The same lab ships fourteen additional advanced flaws (SSTI, upload RCE, XXE, deserialization, SSRF, API/JWT abuse, business logic, and web LDAP) in [Advanced Web Application Security](https://www.darkrelay.com/challenge-page/advanced-web-application-security), each mapped back to the OWASP Top 10, OWASP ASVS and the WSTG so every finding you produce is report-ready from day one. Upon completion of the module, students will be able to: • Perform structured web and API reconnaissance against a multi-service exchange target. • Identify and exploit core web flaws (SQLi, XSS, IDOR, LFI, command injection). • Chain multiple findings into a report-ready engagement narrative with OWASP ASVS and WSTG control mappings. For inquiries, please write us at https://www.darkrelay.com/cybersecurity-course-inquiry