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Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit

By : Harpreet Singh, Himanshu Sharma
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Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit

By: Harpreet Singh, Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

Metasploit has been a crucial security tool for many years. However, there are only a few modules that Metasploit has made available to the public for pentesting web applications. In this book, you'll explore another aspect of the framework – web applications – which is not commonly used. You'll also discover how Metasploit, when used with its inbuilt GUI, simplifies web application penetration testing. The book starts by focusing on the Metasploit setup, along with covering the life cycle of the penetration testing process. Then, you will explore Metasploit terminology and the web GUI, which is available in the Metasploit Community Edition. Next, the book will take you through pentesting popular content management systems such as Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla, which will also include studying the latest CVEs and understanding the root cause of vulnerability in detail. Later, you'll gain insights into the vulnerability assessment and exploitation of technological platforms such as JBoss, Jenkins, and Tomcat. Finally, you'll learn how to fuzz web applications to find logical security vulnerabilities using third-party tools. By the end of this book, you'll have a solid understanding of how to exploit and validate vulnerabilities by working with various tools and techniques.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Introduction
5
The Pentesting Life Cycle with Metasploit
10
Pentesting Content Management Systems (CMSes)
14
Performing Pentesting on Technological Platforms
18
Logical Bug Hunting

Summary

In this chapter, we first learned about the basics of fuzzing and the different types of fuzzing attacks. Then, we moved deeper into web application fuzzing and looked at the installation of Wfuzz and ffuf. After that, we performed fuzzing on HTTP request verbs and request URIs. Toward the end of the chapter, we looked at three scenarios: cookie header fuzzing, user-defined cookie header fuzzing, and custom header fuzzing. Having learned about fuzz testing, you can now understand the behavior of a web application, which will help you to find technical as well as logical vulnerabilities. You can use fuzz testing as part of your regular penetration testing while doing bug bounties, or while playing challenging Capture The Flags (CTFs).

In the next chapter, we will look at the key points that must be included in penetration testing reports.

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