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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

Insecure Direct Object Reference


Insecure Direct Object Reference, more commonly known as IDOR, is a permission-based vulnerability which allows an attacker to access or modify resources belonging to other users of the web application, or rather resources which are not allowed to be controlled by the attacker. The basic fundamental behind IDOR is that an endpoint of a web application tries to display or modify some resource such as a message, image, or file using a user-supplied (or user-controlled) identifier in the request but doesn't check whether the user has enough permission to accomplish the task.

IDOR is not a new vulnerability but I purposely included this section because of the severity or impact of it. Another reason is that XSS and CSRF is harder to discover now because nowadays, web development frameworks such as Rails or Django have built-in filters for XSS and token mechanisms for CSRF, whereas IDOR is a permission-related problem and cannot be fixed automatically or by default...