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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)

Summary

This chapter discusses the finer points of writing a vulnerability report submission that we might have glossed over in our attack chapters, explaining the critical information that should be included in every report, optional information, the importance of including detailed steps to reproduce the bug, how to write a good attack scenario (with examples), where to find real-life production bug report submissions, and more. Building on the sample submission reports we've created throughout our vulnerability walkthrough chapters with more high-level discussion of what makes a report worth a reward, this chapter should give you everything you need moving forward to write quality reports that win you the maximum payout for the bugs you've discovered.

In the next chapter, we will cover tools and methodologies beyond those we used directly in our walkthroughs.

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