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Python Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 60 indispensable Python recipes to ensure you always have the right code on hand for web application testing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392932
Length 224 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Gathering Open Source Intelligence FREE CHAPTER 2. Enumeration 3. Vulnerability Identification 4. SQL Injection 5. Web Header Manipulation 6. Image Analysis and Manipulation 7. Encryption and Encoding 8. Payloads and Shells 9. Reporting Index

Automated parameter-based Cross-site scripting

I've already stated that Cross-site scripting is absurdly easy. Amusingly, it is slightly harder to perform stored Cross-site scripting in a scripted fashion. I should probably take back my earlier words at this point, but whatever. The difficulty here is that systems often take an input structure from one page, submit to another page, and return a third page. The following script is designed to handle that most complex of structures.

We will create a script that takes three input values, reads, and submits to all three correctly and checks for success. It shares code with the earlier URL-based Cross-site scripting but differs fundamentally in its execution.

How to do it…

The following script is the functioning test. It is a script that is designed to be manually edited in a framework similar to sublime text or an IDE, as stored XSS is likely to require fiddling:

import requests
import sys
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, SoupStrainer...
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