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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)

Chapter 9

  1. CVE stands for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. It is a system for allowing different tools and organizations to share data about known vulnerabilities.
  2. WordPress is used by such a gigantic portion of the web that it makes a rich target for hackers. Also, PHP, as a dynamically-type language, has its own weaknesses.
  1. The wpscan CLI allows for greater integration with your existing automation suite, but the Burp extension better supports passive scanning functionality.
  2. Always keep in mind the opinionated structure of Rails and historical weaknesses with session authentication when probing for vulnerabilities.
  3. Docker provides a simple, containerized structure for encapsulating any dependency set your tools might need, making them more portable and extensible.
  4. OVAL stands for Open Vulnerability Assessment Language and is a series of definitions for standardized, machine...