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Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing

By : Prakhar Prasad, Rafay Baloch
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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


API testing is a vast area of research and is still evolving. In this chapter, we saw a generic methodology that one should apply to test any kind of API. This included studying the API structure, understanding request methods, understanding responses, and so on. It also included techniques which one should apply to list endpoints and exploit bugs on real production API. We saw examples of API bugs on sites, such as Facebook, in which we applied our generic methodology to study (learn) about API by understanding structure, roles, scopes, etc. and then exploiting it. API testing has still not evolved, and there's a lot of scope in research.

For learning more about how real API bugs are exploited, I would recommend readers read the following:

http://philippeharewood.com/

https://pranavhivarekar.in/

APIs have gained a lot of popularity nowadays and have brought immense flexibility to cross application integrations, but they also give rise to large and complex attack surfaces. Due to...