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Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit

You're reading from   Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit The subtle art of using Metasploit 5.0 for web application exploitation

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789953527
Length 544 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Harpreet Singh Harpreet Singh
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction
2. Introduction to Web Application Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER 3. Metasploit Essentials 4. The Metasploit Web Interface 5. The Pentesting Life Cycle with Metasploit
6. Using Metasploit for Reconnaissance 7. Web Application Enumeration Using Metasploit 8. Vulnerability Scanning Using WMAP 9. Vulnerability Assessment Using Metasploit (Nessus) 10. Pentesting Content Management Systems (CMSes)
11. Pentesting CMSes - WordPress 12. Pentesting CMSes - Joomla 13. Pentesting CMSes - Drupal 14. Performing Pentesting on Technological Platforms
15. Penetration Testing on Technological Platforms - JBoss 16. Penetration Testing on Technological Platforms - Apache Tomcat 17. Penetration Testing on Technological Platforms - Jenkins 18. Logical Bug Hunting
19. Web Application Fuzzing - Logical Bug Hunting 20. Writing Penetration Testing Reports 21. Assessment 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Performing vulnerability scanning with Joomla

Metasploit does not yet have an inbuilt module for Joomla's specific vulnerability assessment. This gives us two options; either make a wrapper or plugin for Joomla ourselves, as we did for WordPress in the previous chapter, or use different tools that are already available online, such as JoomScan or JoomlaVS. In this section, we will look at a great tool that can be used to perform a vulnerability assessment of Joomla.

The following description is included on the official Joomla GitHub wiki page:

JoomlaVS is a Ruby application that can help automate assessing how vulnerable a Joomla installation is to exploitation. It supports basic fingerprinting and can scan for vulnerabilities in components, modules, and templates, as well as vulnerabilities that exist within Joomla itself.

JoomlaVS can be downloaded from: https://github...

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