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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 80 recipes on how to identify, exploit, and test web application security with Kali Linux 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784392918
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Crawlers and Spiders 4. Finding Vulnerabilities 5. Automated Scanners 6. Exploitation – Low Hanging Fruits 7. Advanced Exploitation 8. Man in the Middle Attacks 9. Client-Side Attacks and Social Engineering 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Index

Using SQLMap to get database information


In Chapter 6, Exploitation – Low Hanging Fruits, we used SQLMap to extract information and the content of tables from a database. This is very useful but it is not the only advantage of this tool, nor the most interesting. In this recipe, we will use it to extract information about database users and passwords that may allow us access to the system, not only to the application.

How to do it...

  1. With the Bee-box virtual machine running and BurpSuite listening as a proxy, log in and select the SQL Injection (POST/Search) vulnerability.

  2. Enter any movie name and click Search.

  3. Now let's go to BurpSuite and check our request:

  4. Now, go to a terminal in Kali Linux and enter the following command:

    sqlmap -u "http://192.168.56.103/bWAPP/sqli_6.php" --cookie="PHPSESSID=15bfb5b6a982d4c86ee9096adcfdb2e0; security_level=0" --data "title=test&action=search" -p title --is-dba
    

    We can see a successful injection. That the current user is DBA which means that the user can...

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