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Burp Suite Cookbook

You're reading from   Burp Suite Cookbook Practical recipes to help you master web penetration testing with Burp Suite

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789531732
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Sunny Wear Dr. Sunny Wear
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Burp Suite FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting to Know the Burp Suite of Tools 3. Configuring, Spidering, Scanning, and Reporting with Burp 4. Assessing Authentication Schemes 5. Assessing Authorization Checks 6. Assessing Session Management Mechanisms 7. Assessing Business Logic 8. Evaluating Input Validation Checks 9. Attacking the Client 10. Working with Burp Macros and Extensions 11. Implementing Advanced Topic Attacks 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Reporting issues

Reporting capabilities are only available in Burp Professional edition.

In Burp Professional, as scanner discovers a vulnerability, it will be added to a list of issues found on the Target tab, in the right-hand side of the UI. Issues are color-coded to indicate the severity and confidence level. An issue with a red exclamation point means it is a high severity and the confidence level is certain. For example, the SQL Injection issue shown here contains both of these attributes.

Items with a lower severity or confidence level will be low, informational, and yellow, gray, or black in color. These items require manual penetration testing to validate whether the vulnerability is present. For example, Input returned in response is a potential vulnerability identified by scanner and shown in the following screenshot. This could be an attack vector for cross-site scripting...

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