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Web Application Hacking with Burp Suite

By: Scott Cosentino

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eText | 26 February 2021 | Edition Number 1

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Learn essential techniques with Burp Suite to detect vulnerabilities that cause web applications to be compromised

Key Features

Learn how to find and exploit common vulnerabilities with Burp
Learn how Burp Suite can help automate attacks
Learn using hands-on examples

Book Description

Burp Suite contains an array of penetration testing and vulnerability finder tools. It is mainly used to identify the vulnerabilities of web applications. In this course, you will learn essential techniques with Burp Suite to detect vulnerabilities that cause web applications to be compromised.

The course starts off with demonstrating how to set up your project in Burp Suite. It also introduces the different modules included in the Burp Suite. You'll learn to identify information disclosure vulnerability and expose sites leaking sensitive information. You'll also learn about insecure decentralization vulnerability and how this can be exposed. Web applications use WebSocket to communicate with the user. Testing web sockets for vulnerabilities is also covered in this course. You'll also learn how to simulate the directory traversal attack and read files that are running.

Finally, you will learn about some other attacks such as the external entity injection (XXE), cross-site scripting (XSS), and SQL injections. With this, you will have all the skills in your arsenal to test web applications.

The code files and all related files are updated on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Web-Application-Hacking-with-Burp-Suite

What you will learn

Learn how Burp Suite is used in web application hacking
Learn to set up Burp using Firefox
Learn the use of different modules in Burp Suite
Simulate common attacks that a web application can be prone to
Simulate advanced attacks that a web application can be prone to

Who this book is for

This course is useful for penetration testers and ethical hackers. This course is also ideal for bug bounty hunters and IT security personnel. IT students who want to enter the field of security and testing can also take up this course.