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Burp Suite Essentials

By : Akash Mahajan
Book Image

Burp Suite Essentials

By: Akash Mahajan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Burp Suite Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Using Engagement Tools and Other Utilities

Engagement tools is a Pro-only feature of Burp Suite. Apart from the engagement tools, we will look at some smaller utilities that aid the testing process, such as Search, Target Analyzer, Content Discovery, Task Scheduler, CSRF PoC Generator, and Manual Testing Simulator.

Out of all these, Manual Testing Simulator doesn't really have any use except maybe like an inside joke for the creators. But it is enabled and can be used. The idea behind all the other tools is to make the testing process smoother and faster. These tools enhance the testing process, but due to their nature, they can be time consuming and boring when done manually. Since they are of lower priority, we might give them a miss, but the Burp Suite Pro version helps us to ensure that we go ahead and complete them.

In the free version of Burp Suite, the engagement tool context menu is disabled with a message that this is meant for the Pro version only, as shown in the following...