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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 5

  1. Blind SQLi is SQLi where the results aren't visible; error-based SQLi expose sensitive information via carefully crafted SQL errors and time-based SQLi.
  2. Aggressive SQLi injections can potentially damage a database or application.
  3. Google Dorks are search queries designed to expose potentially vulnerable sites. The term comes from the hapless employee who mistakenly allows a sensitive document to be indexed by a public search engine.
  4. --timeout, checks, --scope-include-subdomains, --http-request-concurrency MAX_CONCURRENCY, and --plugin 'PLUGIN:OPTION=VALUE,OPTION2=VALUE2' are all useful configuration flags for the arachni CLI.
  5. You can generate reports from .afr files using the arachni_reporter CLI:
      arachni_reporter some_report.afr --reporter=html:outfile=my_report.html.zip

  1. The $where clause in MongoDB is particularly vulnerable to injection.
  2. If...
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