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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

Finding vulnerabilities with Wapiti


Wapiti is another terminal-based Web vulnerability scanner, which sends GET and POST requests to target sites looking for the following vulnerabilities (http://wapiti.sourceforge.net/):

  • File disclosure

  • Database injection

  • XSS (cross-site scripting)

  • Command execution detection

  • CRLF injection

  • XXE (XML eXternal Entity) injection

  • Use of known potentially dangerous files

  • Weak .htaccess configurations that can be bypassed

  • Presence of backup files that give sensitive information (source code disclosure)

In this recipe, we will use Wapiti to discover vulnerabilities in one of our test applications and generate a report of the scan.

How to do it...

  1. We can call Wapiti from a terminal window, as shown:

    wapiti http://192.168.56.102/peruggia/ -o wapiti_result -f html -m "-blindsql"
    

    We will scan the Peruggia application in our vulnerable_vm, save the output in HTML format inside the wapiti_result directory, and skip the blind SQL injection tests.

  2. If we open the report's directory...

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