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Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit

By : Harpreet Singh, Himanshu Sharma
Book Image

Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit

By: Harpreet Singh, Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

Metasploit has been a crucial security tool for many years. However, there are only a few modules that Metasploit has made available to the public for pentesting web applications. In this book, you'll explore another aspect of the framework – web applications – which is not commonly used. You'll also discover how Metasploit, when used with its inbuilt GUI, simplifies web application penetration testing. The book starts by focusing on the Metasploit setup, along with covering the life cycle of the penetration testing process. Then, you will explore Metasploit terminology and the web GUI, which is available in the Metasploit Community Edition. Next, the book will take you through pentesting popular content management systems such as Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla, which will also include studying the latest CVEs and understanding the root cause of vulnerability in detail. Later, you'll gain insights into the vulnerability assessment and exploitation of technological platforms such as JBoss, Jenkins, and Tomcat. Finally, you'll learn how to fuzz web applications to find logical security vulnerabilities using third-party tools. By the end of this book, you'll have a solid understanding of how to exploit and validate vulnerabilities by working with various tools and techniques.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Introduction
5
The Pentesting Life Cycle with Metasploit
10
Pentesting Content Management Systems (CMSes)
14
Performing Pentesting on Technological Platforms
18
Logical Bug Hunting

Chapter 6

  1. It all depends upon the frequency and concurrence of the scan running. A minimum of two client nodes and a master node could be used for a distributed scan, but you can make your decision based on the number of systems you want to scan.

  2. The WMAP plugin, when loaded in Metasploit, will save all the results in the database connected to it. Note: There is no specific feature in this plugin that will generate a report on WMAP.

  3. All the formats supported by the Metasploit Framework are mentioned in the db_import command. Please refer to that.

  4. WMAP is a plugin written in Ruby. You can edit the file and modify the code according to your needs. Please read the LICENCE file before making any modifications.

  5. WMAP has a limit of 25 jobs per node. This is done to prevent nodes from being over-burdened.