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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

You're reading from   Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers A practical guide to help ethical hackers discover web application security flaws

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789344202
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Joe Marshall Joe Marshall
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Joining the Hunt 2. Choosing Your Hunting Ground FREE CHAPTER 3. Preparing for an Engagement 4. Unsanitized Data – An XSS Case Study 5. SQL, Code Injection, and Scanners 6. CSRF and Insecure Session Authentication 7. Detecting XML External Entities 8. Access Control and Security Through Obscurity 9. Framework and Application-Specific Vulnerabilities 10. Formatting Your Report 11. Other Tools 12. Other (Out of Scope) Vulnerabilities 13. Going Further 14. Assessment 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 4

  1. Stored/Persistent, Reflected, and DOM Based XSS are three common varieties of XSS.
  2. Persistent XSS is particularly dangerous because the malicious code stored in the server can be served up to a large number of users.
  3. There are a lot of false positives associated with XSS discovery. XSS Validator helps boost the signal through the noise.
  4. The XSS Validator phantomjs server listens for possible vulnerabilities and performs validation checks on them.
  5. Use the Payload Positions feature in the Payloads tab in Burp Intruder.
  6. All of the usual contextual data is important (URL location, input, and so on), but the payload is most essential.
  7. An XSS vulnerability could allow an attacker to steal admin account credentials and take the actions of a superuser for a particular service and organization.
  8. Including an attack scenario convinces the team receiving the report that they should...
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