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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Identify, exploit, and prevent web application vulnerabilities with Kali Linux 2018.x

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788991513
Length 404 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Preface 1. Setting Up Kali Linux and the Testing Lab FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Using Proxies, Crawlers, and Spiders 4. Testing Authentication and Session Management 5. Cross-Site Scripting and Client-Side Attacks 6. Exploiting Injection Vulnerabilities 7. Exploiting Platform Vulnerabilities 8. Using Automated Scanners 9. Bypassing Basic Security Controls 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the browser's developer tools to analyze and alter basic behavior

Firebug is a browser add-on that allows us to analyze the inner components of a web page, such as table elements, CSS classes, and frames. It also has the ability to show us DOM objects, error codes, and request-response communication between the browser and server.

In the previous recipe, we saw how to look into a web page's HTML source code and found a hidden input field that established some default values for the maximum size of a file. In this recipe, we will see how to use the browser's debugging extensions, in this particular case, Firebug for Firefox, or OWASP Mantra.

How to do it...

With vm_1 running, go to your Kali VM and browse...

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