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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)

Technical Requirements

In this section, we'll be working with Burp and some of its extensions to set up KCV detection automatically. We'll also be relying on our usual browser setup to act as the Burp proxy. We'll also be using WPScan as both a CLI and a Burp extension.

The WPScan CLI comes with a variety of install options. Once again, we'll be using the container software Docker to download and run the wpscan CLI from within the context of a custom execution context packaged with everything it needs. Docker allows us to port this workflow anywhere we can install Docker, meaning that we don't need to worry about OS-specific behavior. And because Docker caches the WPScan CLI image, we can use it with only a marginal performance hit over a native installation.

Assuming that Docker is installed, to pull down the latest WPScan CLI image, simply run this quick...