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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2.0, Second Edition

Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2.0, Second Edition

By : Juned Ahmed Ansari
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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2.0, Second Edition

Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2.0, Second Edition

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By: Juned Ahmed Ansari

Overview of this book

Kali Linux 2.0 is the new generation of the industry-leading BackTrack Linux penetration testing and security auditing Linux distribution. It contains several hundred tools aimed at various information security tasks such as penetration testing, forensics, and reverse engineering. At the beginning of the book, you will be introduced to the concepts of hacking and penetration testing and will get to know about the tools used in Kali Linux 2.0 that relate to web application hacking. Then, you will gain a deep understanding of SQL and command injection flaws and ways to exploit the flaws. Moving on, you will get to know more about scripting and input validation flaws, AJAX, and the security issues related to AJAX. At the end of the book, you will use an automated technique called fuzzing to be able to identify flaws in a web application. Finally, you will understand the web application vulnerabilities and the ways in which they can be exploited using the tools in Kali Linux 2.0.
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5. Attacking the Server Using Injection-based Flaws
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7. Attacking SSL-based Websites
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File inclusion vulnerability


In a web application, the developer may include code stored on a remote server or from a file stored locally on the server. Referencing files other than the ones in the web root is mainly used for combining common code into files that can be later referenced by the main application.

Remote file include

Remote file include, or RFI as it is widely known, is an attack technique that exploits the file inclusion mechanism when the programmer is not careful and dynamically references external code directed by user input without proper validation. This may result in the application been tricked to run a script from a remote server under the control of the attacker. PHP is most widely attacked by a remote file include vulnerability, but this flaw is not limited to PHP.

The include function in PHP language is the one that allows the programmer to reference code from a remote server. The following PHP code will extract the value of the script parameter from the HTTP request...

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