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Burp Suite Cookbook

By : Dr. Sunny Wear
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Burp Suite Cookbook

By: Dr. Sunny Wear

Overview of this book

Burp Suite is a Java-based platform for testing the security of your web applications, and has been adopted widely by professional enterprise testers. The Burp Suite Cookbook contains recipes to tackle challenges in determining and exploring vulnerabilities in web applications. You will learn how to uncover security flaws with various test cases for complex environments. After you have configured Burp for your environment, you will use Burp tools such as Spider, Scanner, Intruder, Repeater, and Decoder, among others, to resolve specific problems faced by pentesters. You will also explore working with various modes of Burp and then perform operations on the web. Toward the end, you will cover recipes that target specific test scenarios and resolve them using best practices. By the end of the book, you will be up and running with deploying Burp for securing web applications.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Working with JWT

As more sites provide client API access, JWT are commonly used for authentication. These tokens hold identity and claims information tied to the resources the user is granted access to on the target site. Web-penetration testers need to read these tokens and determine their strength. Fortunately, there are some handy plugins that make working with JWT tokens inside of Burp much easier. We will learn about these plugins in this recipe.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we need to generate JWT tokens. Therefore, we will use the OneLogin software to assist with this task. In order to complete this recipe, browse to the OneLogin website: https://www.onelogin.com/. Click the Developers link at the top and then click...