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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

You're reading from   Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite Use Burp Suite and its features to inspect, detect, and exploit security vulnerabilities in your web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788994064
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhruv Shah Dhruv Shah
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Riyaz Ahemed Walikar Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
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Carlos A. Lozano Carlos A. Lozano
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Configuring Burp Suite FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring the Client and Setting Up Mobile Devices 3. Executing an Application Penetration Test 4. Exploring the Stages of an Application Penetration Test 5. Preparing for an Application Penetration Test 6. Identifying Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite 7. Detecting Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite 8. Exploiting Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite - Part 1 9. Exploiting Vulnerabilities Using Burp Suite - Part 2 10. Writing Burp Suite Extensions 11. Breaking the Authentication for a Large Online Retailer 12. Exploiting and Exfiltrating Data from a Large Shipping Corporation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with target exclusions

Just as we can add items to scope in Burp, we can also add items that need to be explicitly set out of scope. This, as is the case with in-scope items, can be added via two methods. The first is via the Proxy | History tab from the right-click context menu:

The second is from the Target scope tab in the Exclude from scope section. For example, if you want to exclude all sub-directories and files under /javascript, then the following options can be applied:

  • Protocol: HTTP
  • Host or IP range: mutillidae-testing.cxm
  • Port: ^80$
  • File: ^/javascript/.*

This will exclude all URLs under the /javascript/ directory on port 80 with the HTTP protocol.

You can also load a file containing a list of URLs that need to be excluded from scope via the Load button on the Target | Scope page. This list must be URLs/targets separated by newlines.

Both the Include in scope option and Exclude from scope option are case insensitive. /javascript/, /JavaScript/, and /jAvAscrIPt/ all mean the same for the Target | Scope feature of Burp.

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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite
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