Advanced Website Penetration Testing

As you progress along your cybersecurity journey, you will encounter a lot of malpractice, such as administrative oversights, technical misconfigurations, and procedural weaknesses, within organizations that often lead to their systems and networks being compromised by a threat actor. As an aspiring ethical hacker and penetration tester, you must test for everything that’s within your penetration testing scope, even if it’s something you think is very minor within the IT industry. Many organizations use default user accounts, default configurations, outdated applications, unsecure network protocols, and so on. Being able to compromise the easiest security vulnerability within a web application is all it takes sometimes to gain a bigger doorway into the organization.

In this chapter, you will learn how to discover security vulnerabilities within a vulnerable web application. You will learn how the security risk increases when organizations...