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Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing

By : Prakhar Prasad, Rafay Baloch
Book Image

Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing

By: Prakhar Prasad, Rafay Baloch

Overview of this book

Web penetration testing is a growing, fast-moving, and absolutely critical field in information security. This book executes modern web application attacks and utilises cutting-edge hacking techniques with an enhanced knowledge of web application security. We will cover web hacking techniques so you can explore the attack vectors during penetration tests. The book encompasses the latest technologies such as OAuth 2.0, Web API testing methodologies and XML vectors used by hackers. Some lesser discussed attack vectors such as RPO (relative path overwrite), DOM clobbering, PHP Object Injection and etc. has been covered in this book. We'll explain various old school techniques in depth such as XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection through the ever-dependable SQLMap and reconnaissance. Websites nowadays provide APIs to allow integration with third party applications, thereby exposing a lot of attack surface, we cover testing of these APIs using real-life examples. This pragmatic guide will be a great benefit and will help you prepare fully secure applications.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


OAuth 2.0 security is something that I recommend researching. There are lots of issues which are only limited to a single provider because they heavily modify the OAuth to suit their users; this tweaking leads to more bugs. This chapter dealt with the useful basics of OAuth and the different ways in which we could exploit OAuth security. There are some classic OAuth bugs, which I didn't cover here but I recommend you read about the state parameter OAuth2 CSRF.

There are certain techniques which came into existence recently and I suggest you go through them as they are at a nascent stage:

https://techzone.ergon.ch/oauth-307Redirect-idpMixUp

For further OAuth techniques, these websites are a must:

http://www.oauthsecurity.com/

http://homakov.blogspot.com/

http://isciurus.blogspot.com/

The next chapter is a guest chapter written by Mr. Pranav Hivarekar. The chapter mostly deals with methodologies involving testing Web APIs for security.