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Burp Suite Cookbook

By : Sunny Wear
Book Image

Burp Suite Cookbook

By: 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)

Testing the account provisioning process via the REST API

Account provisioning is the process of establishing and maintaining user accounts within an application. Provisioning capabilities are usually restricted to administrator accounts. Penetration testers must validate account-provisioning functions are done by users providing proper identification and authorization. A common venue for account provisioning is through Representational State Transfer (REST) API calls. Many times, developers may not put the same authorization checks in place for API calls that are used in the UI portion of an application.

Getting ready

Using REST API calls available in the OWASP Mutillidae II application, determine whether an unauthenticated...