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Joomla is a CMS written in PHP and will run on those operating systems that have PHP installed.
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If you already using a detection technique unknown to the community, you can add the technique to the Metasploit code. At the same time, you can send a push request to the Metasploit GitHub repository, which should help the community as well.
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There are multiple ways to find the version installed. You can even read the source code to find the headers or parameters that will disclose the Joomla version.
- The goal of a pentester is to find the vulnerability and exploit it to the extent that it would convince the organization's management to not overlook the security aspect of the web application. Backdooring the application would defy this logic and it is unethical to do so.
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Table Of Contents
Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit
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Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit
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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)
Preface
Introduction
Free Chapter
Introduction to Web Application Penetration Testing
Metasploit Essentials
The Metasploit Web Interface
The Pentesting Life Cycle with Metasploit
Using Metasploit for Reconnaissance
Web Application Enumeration Using Metasploit
Vulnerability Scanning Using WMAP
Vulnerability Assessment Using Metasploit (Nessus)
Pentesting Content Management Systems (CMSes)
Pentesting CMSes - WordPress
Pentesting CMSes - Joomla
Pentesting CMSes - Drupal
Performing Pentesting on Technological Platforms
Penetration Testing on Technological Platforms - JBoss
Penetration Testing on Technological Platforms - Apache Tomcat
Penetration Testing on Technological Platforms - Jenkins
Logical Bug Hunting
Web Application Fuzzing - Logical Bug Hunting
Writing Penetration Testing Reports
Assessment
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