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Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook

You're reading from   Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook Hacking tactics, techniques, and procedures for testing web applications and APIs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801817332
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nestor Torres Nestor Torres
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Ahmed Almoailu Ahmed Almoailu
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with OWASP Zed Attack Proxy 2. Chapter 2: Navigating the UI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Configuring, Crawling, Scanning, and Reporting 4. Chapter 4: Authentication and Authorization Testing 5. Chapter 5: Testing of Session Management 6. Chapter 6: Validating (Data) Inputs – Part 1 7. Chapter 7: Validating (Data) Inputs – Part 2 8. Chapter 8: Business Logic Testing 9. Chapter 9: Client-Side Testing 10. Chapter 10: Advanced Attack Techniques 11. Chapter 11: Advanced Adventures with ZAP 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Crawling with the AJAX Spider

AJAX web applications can use XML to transport data, but many web applications can equally use JSON text or plain text to transport data as well. AJAX is a way for web applications to update asynchronously (web services, API endpoints, and JavaScript fetch methods) by exchanging data with a web server on the backend. This allows a web page to update parts of a page without reloading it entirely. The AJAX Spider creates a proxy for ZAP to talk to Crawljax, which is an open source, event-driven, and dynamic crawling tool.

Getting ready

You need to crawl Juice Shop using ZAP, so start and run both before commencing this recipe.

How to do it…

There are three methods to start AJAX crawling. The first method is in the Sites tree window. To start AJAX crawling, right-click on the site of choice to AJAX-crawl, hover over Attack, and click on Ajax Spider…, as shown in Figure 3.10.

Figure 3.10 – Starting the AJAX Spider through the Sites tree

Figure 3.10 – Starting...

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