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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 9. Using Burp Extensions and Writing Your Own

Not only does Burp Suite come with its own rich set of tools, it also provides API interfaces to extend its functionality. Many security researchers have written extensions that enhance the native functionality or add to the already rich tool set.

Using the Extender tool, we can load and manage different extensions written for Burp Suite. These extensions might extend the core functionality of Burp Suite or provide an easy way to do something that might be difficult with the basic Burp Suite tools.

Burp Suite comes with its own BApp Store, which contains different types of extensions that are ready to load and use. A few extensions are only meant for the Pro version. The BApp Store is also available online, and the extensions can be downloaded and installed manually if required (https://pro.portswigger.net/bappstore/).

Burp Extensions can be written in Java, Python, or Ruby. For Python and Ruby, we need to set up the environment before we...