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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Identify, exploit, and prevent web application vulnerabilities with Kali Linux 2018.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788991513
Length 404 pages
Edition 2nd 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 and the Testing Lab FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Using Proxies, Crawlers, and Spiders 4. Testing Authentication and Session Management 5. Cross-Site Scripting and Client-Side Attacks 6. Exploiting Injection Vulnerabilities 7. Exploiting Platform Vulnerabilities 8. Using Automated Scanners 9. Bypassing Basic Security Controls 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploiting Cross-Site Scripting using obfuscated code

In the preceding recipe, we faced a filtering mechanism that removed the opening script tag. As <script> is not the only tag that may be used in an XSS attack and JavaScript code is more consistent than HTML in terms of capitalization and structure, some filters try to restrict the use of words and characters belonging to JavaScript code, such as alert, cookie, and document.

In this recipe, we will explore an alternative, a somewhat extreme one maybe, of code obfuscation using a so-called esoteric language called JSFuck (http://JSFuck.com).

How to do it...

For this recipe, we will use the prototyping features provided by the Magical Code Injection Rainbow, an...

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