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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)

Vulnerability Lab Archive

We first discussed Vulnerability Lab, like Hackerone, in the context of good bug bounty researcher communities. In addition to being a great source for discovering new bounty programs, Vulnerability Lab also maintains an archive (https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/) of all the bug reports submitted on its platform (whose program owners also agree to publicly disclosing the vulnerability):

One of the most valuable elements of the Vulnerability Lab archive is that each report is organized by type—whether it's a web application, mobile app, or general vendor vulnerability—making it easy to drill down into the reports that are most relevant to your practice.