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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

By : Joe Marshall, Himanshu Sharma
Book Image

Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

By: Joe Marshall, Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

Bug bounties have quickly become a critical part of the security economy. This book shows you how technical professionals with an interest in security can begin productively—and profitably—participating in bug bounty programs. You will learn about SQli, NoSQLi, XSS, XXE, and other forms of code injection. You’ll see how to create CSRF PoC HTML snippets, how to discover hidden content (and what to do with it once it’s found), and how to create the tools for automated pentesting work?ows. Then, you’ll format all of this information within the context of a bug report that will have the greatest chance of earning you cash. With detailed walkthroughs that cover discovering, testing, and reporting vulnerabilities, this book is ideal for aspiring security professionals. You should come away from this work with the skills you need to not only find the bugs you're looking for, but also the best bug bounty programs to participate in, and how to grow your skills moving forward in freelance security research.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Summary

This chapter covered the basics of the CVE vulnerability identification system, how to build workflows around discovering WordPress, Ruby on Rails, or Django-related vulnerabilities, and why known vulnerability detection, despite all the caveats, can still be worth integrating into your security practice. You should be moving forward with a better understanding of the role application-specific vulnerabilities play in the security ecosystem and be confident building application-specific testing processes, where appropriate, into Burp-based, script-based, or any number of other workflow strategies.

In the next chapter, we will cover the critical information that should be included in every report, optional information, the importance of including detailed steps to reproduce the bug, and how to write a good attack scenario.

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