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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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Himanshu Sharma
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

XML injection vectors

XML injection and XML parsing-related vulnerabilities aren't always observable from the client-side code – the XML part of the processing chain could be occurring within the server formatting your client-side input.

Following an OWASP XML injection example, the client-side form (assuming, for argument's sake, that it's making a GET request) will create an HTTP request that looks like this:

Username: james
Password: Thew45p!
E-mail: james.mowry@terran.gov

Then, before inserting itself into an XML-document-like-database, the application will build an individual XML node:

<user> 
<username>james</username>
<password>Thew45p!</password>
<userid>500</userid>
<mail>james.mowry@terran.gov</mail>
</user>

You can exploit this behavior to do different kinds of injection, including...

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