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Burp Suite Cookbook

By : Sunny Wear
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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)

Uploading malicious files – polyglots

Polyglot is a term defined as something that uses several languages. If we carry this concept into hacking, it means the creation of a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack vector by using different languages as execution points. For example, attackers can construct valid images and embed JavaScript with them. The placement of the JavaScript payload is usually in the comments section of an image. Once the image is loaded in a browser, the XSS content may execute, depending upon the strictness of the content-type declared by the web server and the interpretation of the content-type by the browser.

Getting ready

  • Download a JPG file containing a cross-site scripting vulnerability...