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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 80 recipes on how to identify, exploit, and test web application security with Kali Linux 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784392918
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Kali Linux 2. Reconnaissance FREE CHAPTER 3. Crawlers and Spiders 4. Finding Vulnerabilities 5. Automated Scanners 6. Exploitation – Low Hanging Fruits 7. Advanced Exploitation 8. Man in the Middle Attacks 9. Client-Side Attacks and Social Engineering 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Index

Using Burp Suite to view and alter requests


Burp Suite, as OWASP ZAP, is more than just a simple web proxy. It is a fully featured web application testing kit; it has a proxy, request repeater, request automation, string encoder and decoder, vulnerability scanners (in the Pro version), and other useful features.

In this recipe, we will do the previous exercise but this time using Burp's proxy to intercept and alter the requests.

Getting ready

Start Burp Suite and prepare the browser to use it as proxy.

How to do it...

  1. Browse to http://192.168.56.102/mutillidae/.

  2. By default, interception is enabled in Burp's proxy, so it will capture the first request. We need to go to Burp Suite and click on the Intercept is on button in the Proxy tab.

  3. The browser will continue loading the page. When it finishes, we will use Toggle Security to set the correct security level in the application: 1 (Arrogant).

  4. From the menu, navigate to OWASP Top 10 | A1 – SQL Injection | SQLi – Extract Data | User Info.

  5. In the Name...

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