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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)

Building and Using CSRF PoCs

A CSRF proof of concept is just a short HTML snippet that, when executed by a user, will take advantage of the weak CSRF defence and change the application state in unexpected or unwanted ways, validating the vulnerability.

Creating a CSRF PoC Code Snippet

As the basis for building a CSRF PoC snippet, let's go back to a form on the deliberately-vulnerable web app, webscantest.com, that's vulnerable to both XSS and CSRF:

Now we can fill in the values for our form, entering the information for one William Private Mandella Mandella:

In order to build our CSRF PoC, it can be helpful to see the form as an HTTP action, so we can grab the type of data-encoding, HTTP verb, and form-field information...