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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

Understanding WMAP – Metasploit's Web Application Security Scanner


WMAP is a fast, light, and feature-packed script present inside Metasploit. This was originally forked off from SQLMap. I don't encourage automated scanning to find vulnerabilities, built-in scanners like this come in very handy for finding low hanging vulnerabilities in web applications. Imagine you have to conduct a security assessment of a large network mostly comprising of web applications, tools like this can give an insight to how weak the web applications actually are, since if the scanner picks up or discovers vulnerabilities (excluding false positives) in a quick time then it is a big red flag telling you that the web applications have poor security. This is made much clearer by the fact that automated scanners can't really find tricky bugs; so if it finds a good set of bugs then you know how to handle the assessment further.

Coming back, to start WMAP we'll first need to start MSFconsole as it will be our choice...