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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook Powerful recipes to detect vulnerabilities and perform security assessments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783982165
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhruv Shah Dhruv Shah
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Dhruv Shah
Ishan Girdhar Ishan Girdhar
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Getting Started - Setting Up an Environment 2. Network Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Network Vulnerability Assessment 4. Network Exploitation 5. Web Application Information Gathering 6. Web Application Vulnerability Assessment 7. Web Application Exploitation 8. System and Password Exploitation 9. Privilege Escalation and Exploitation 10. Wireless Exploitation Pen Testing 101 Basics

CMS and plugins detection using WhatWeb and p0f


In this recipe, we will learn to use different tools in Kali, which we can use to determine the plugins that are installed. If applications are built based on CMSes, it is very that they would be using certain plugins. Major vulnerabilities that exist are in third-party plugins that developers use in these CMSes. Finding out the plugins and their versions can help you to look exploits available vulnerable plugins.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will require an Internet connection.

How to do it...

  1. Let's start with our first tool in Kali Linux is WhatWeb. WhatWeb identifies websites. Its goal is to answer the question, "What is that Website?" WhatWeb recognizes web technologies, including content management systems (CMS), blogging platforms, statistic/analytics packages, JavaScript libraries, web servers, and devices. WhatWeb has over 900 plugins, each to recognize something different. WhatWeb also identifies version numbers, e-mail addresses...
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