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Introduction to Web Application Penetration Testing

In today's world, there are automated tools and SaaS solutions that can test the security of a system or application. Automation often fails at a logical level when an application needs to be tested for business-logic flaws. It is important to learn how the penetration tester can help organizations stay a step ahead of cyber attacks and why the organization needs to follow a strict patch-management cycle to secure their assets.

In this book, you will learn how to perform a penetration test on web applications that are built on different platforms using the famous Metasploit framework. As most of us have heard about this tool and its importance in regular penetration tests, this book will be focused on how we can perform penetration testing on a variety of web applications, such as content management systems (CMSes) and content...

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Get up to speed with Metasploit and discover how to use it for pentesting

Understand how to exploit and protect your web environment effectively

Learn how an exploit works and what causes vulnerabilities

Description

Metasploit has been a crucial security tool for many years. However, there are only a few modules that Metasploit has made available to the public for pentesting web applications. In this book, you'll explore another aspect of the framework – web applications – which is not commonly used. You'll also discover how Metasploit, when used with its inbuilt GUI, simplifies web application penetration testing. The book starts by focusing on the Metasploit setup, along with covering the life cycle of the penetration testing process. Then, you will explore Metasploit terminology and the web GUI, which is available in the Metasploit Community Edition. Next, the book will take you through pentesting popular content management systems such as Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla, which will also include studying the latest CVEs and understanding the root cause of vulnerability in detail. Later, you'll gain insights into the vulnerability assessment and exploitation of technological platforms such as JBoss, Jenkins, and Tomcat. Finally, you'll learn how to fuzz web applications to find logical security vulnerabilities using third-party tools. By the end of this book, you'll have a solid understanding of how to exploit and validate vulnerabilities by working with various tools and techniques.

Who is this book for?

This book is for web security analysts, bug bounty hunters, security professionals, or any stakeholder in the security sector who wants to delve into web application security testing. Professionals who are not experts with command line tools or Kali Linux and prefer Metasploit’s graphical user interface (GUI) will also find this book useful. No experience with Metasploit is required, but basic knowledge of Linux and web application pentesting will be helpful.

What you will learn

Get up to speed with setting up and installing the Metasploit framework

Gain first-hand experience of the Metasploit web interface

Use Metasploit for web-application reconnaissance

Understand how to pentest various content management systems

Pentest platforms such as JBoss, Tomcat, and Jenkins

Become well-versed with fuzzing web applications

Write and automate penetration testing reports

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Jeff Welch May 31, 2021

This book seems to have some great content and I was excited to use the capabilities of the GUI metasploit only to find out that the vendor no longer provides a free community edition. To use the "pro" version is only $15000 per year. Unfortunately, this makes a lot of the content in the book null and void for those of us just trying to learn.

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Wisnu Dwi Hidayat Jun 10, 2020

If you are learning and want to know and deep to practice in web penetration, and everyone who interesting in web penetration, this book is very useful. It may upgrade your knowledge.

Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit: The subtle art of using Metasploit 5.0 for web application exploitation

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Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit

Introduction to Web Application Penetration Testing

What is a penetration test?

Types of penetration test

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Stages of penetration testing

Reconnaissance and information gathering

Important terminologies

Penetration testing methodologies

Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM)

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

OWASP Top 10

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