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Attacking and Exploiting Modern Web Applications

Attacking and Exploiting Modern Web Applications

By : Simone Onofri, Onofri
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Attacking and Exploiting Modern Web Applications

Attacking and Exploiting Modern Web Applications

4.9 (14)
By: Simone Onofri, Onofri

Overview of this book

Web attacks and exploits pose an ongoing threat to the interconnected world. This comprehensive book explores the latest challenges in web application security, providing you with an in-depth understanding of hackers' methods and the practical knowledge and skills needed to effectively understand web attacks. The book starts by emphasizing the importance of mindset and toolset in conducting successful web attacks. You’ll then explore the methodologies and frameworks used in these attacks, and learn how to configure the environment using interception proxies, automate tasks with Bash and Python, and set up a research lab. As you advance through the book, you’ll discover how to attack the SAML authentication layer; attack front-facing web applications by learning WordPress and SQL injection, and exploit vulnerabilities in IoT devices, such as command injection, by going through three CTFs and learning about the discovery of seven CVEs. Each chapter analyzes confirmed cases of exploitation mapped with MITRE ATT&CK. You’ll also analyze attacks on Electron JavaScript-based applications, such as XSS and RCE, and the security challenges of auditing and exploiting Ethereum smart contracts written in Solidity. Finally, you’ll find out how to disclose vulnerabilities. By the end of this book, you’ll have enhanced your ability to find and exploit web vulnerabilities.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Part 1: Attack Preparation
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Part 2: Evergreen Attacks
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Part 3: Novel Attacks

Part 2: Evergreen Attacks

In the second part of this book, we will meticulously dissect “evergreen attacks,” walking through them step by step. We will focus on perennial vulnerabilities that, despite being well known, perpetually resurface in novel forms.

Practically, we will see a Capture the Flag (CTF) exercise that we prepared to understand SAML better. Then, we will see how we discovered two CVEs (SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting) by reviewing the code of a WordPress plugin, and four CVEs (Command Injection and Path Traversal) on an IoT device by reversing some components.

This part has the following chapters:

  • Chapter 3, Attacking the Authentication Layer – a SAML Use Case
  • Chapter 4, Attacking Internet-Facing Web Applications – SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) on WordPress
  • Chapter 5, Attacking IoT Devices – Command Injection and Path Traversal
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