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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

Vulnerability Scanning Using WMAP

Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, ranking, and classifying the vulnerabilities in a network or an application. It provides an organization with an understanding of their assets and the risks they face. When using Metasploit, vulnerability scanning can be done using separate auxiliary modules or using the available plugins. The Metasploit Framework also allows us to add our own custom plugin if we have our own vulnerability scanner (in-house).

WMAP is a Metasploit plugin that gives users the freedom to perform vulnerability scanning on a target with respect to the Metasploit modules used in the scan. One of the best features of this plugin is the ability to use as many Metasploit modules (including custom modules) for a vulnerability scan as required by the tester. The tester can create multiple profiles to fit different...