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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 2. Reconnaissance FREE CHAPTER 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 Hackbar add-on to ease parameter probing


When testing a web application, we will need to interact with the browser's address bar, add and change parameters, and alter the URL. Some server responses will include redirects, reload, and parameter changes; all these alterations make the task of trying different values for the same variable very time consuming; we need some tool to make them less disruptive.

Hackbar is a Firefox add-on that behaves like an address bar but is not affected by redirections or other changes caused by the server's response, which is exactly why we need to begin testing a web application.

In this recipe, we will use Hackbar to easily send multiple versions of the same request.

Getting ready

If you are not using OWASP Mantra, you will have to install the Hackbar add-on to your version of Firefox.

How to do it...

  1. Browse to Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) and log in. The default user/password combination is: admin/admin.

  2. From the menu on the left, select SQL Injection...

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