You're reading from Python for Security and Networking Leverage Python modules and tools in securing your network and applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837637553

Length 586 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Information Security

Author (1):

José Manuel Ortega

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Python Environment and System Programming Tools

2. Working with Python Scripting FREE CHAPTER

3. System Programming Packages

4. Section 2: Network Scripting and Packet Sniffing with Python

5. Socket Programming

6. HTTP Programming and Web Authentication

7. Analyzing Network Traffic and Packet Sniffing

8. Section 3: Server Scripting and Port Scanning with Python

9. Gathering Information from Servers with OSINT Tools

10. Interacting with FTP, SFTP, and SSH Servers

11. Working with Nmap Scanner

12. Section 4: Server Vulnerabilities and Security in Web Applications

13. Interacting with Vulnerability Scanners

14. Interacting with Server Vulnerabilities in Web Applications

15. Obtain Information from Vulnerabilities Databases

16. Section 5: Python Forensics

17. Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers

18. Python Tools for Brute-Force Attacks

19. Cryptography and Code Obfuscation

20. Assessments – Answers to the End-of-Chapter Questions

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Analyzing and discovering vulnerabilities in CMS web applications

In this section, we will cover some of the tools that can be used to discover vulnerabilities in CMS web applications such as WordPress and Joomla.

For example, we might be interested in determining the type of CMS as well as the vulnerabilities at the administrative interface level relative to users and groups that are configured.

CMSs have become an especially tempting target for attackers due to their growth and large presence on the internet.

The ease with which a website can be created without any technical knowledge leads many companies and individuals to use applications with numerous vulnerabilities due to the use of outdated plugins and poor configurations on the server where they are hosted. CMSs also include third-party plugins to facilitate tasks such as login and session management and searches, and some include shopping cart modules. The main problem is that we can usually find security issues...