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Burp Suite Cookbook

Burp Suite Cookbook

By : Dr. Sunny Wear
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Burp Suite Cookbook

Burp Suite Cookbook

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By: Dr. Sunny Wear

Overview of this book

With its many features, easy-to-use interface, and flexibility, Burp Suite is the top choice for professionals looking to strengthen web application and API security. This book offers solutions to challenges related to identifying, testing, and exploiting vulnerabilities in web applications and APIs. It provides guidance on identifying security weaknesses in diverse environments by using different test cases. Once you’ve learned how to configure Burp Suite, the book will demonstrate the effective utilization of its tools, such as Live tasks, Scanner, Intruder, Repeater, and Decoder, enabling you to evaluate the security vulnerability of target applications. Additionally, you’ll explore various Burp extensions and the latest features of Burp Suite, including DOM Invader. By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired the skills needed to confidently use Burp Suite to conduct comprehensive security assessments of web applications and APIs.
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Testing for directory traversal

Directory traversal attacks are attempts to discover or force-browse unauthorized web pages usually designed for administrators of the application. If an application does not configure the web document root properly and does not include proper authorization checks on the server side for each page accessed, a directory traversal vulnerability may exist. This type of weakness allows an attack to perform system command injection exploitation or arbitrary code execution.

Getting ready

Using OWASP Mutillidae II as our target application, let’s determine whether it contains any directory traversal vulnerabilities.

Ensure that Burp Suite and the OWASP BWA VM are running, that Burp Suite is configured in the Firefox browser (or use the Burp Suite browser), and that you are viewing the OWASP BWA applications.

How to do it...

  1. From the OWASP BWA landing page, click the link to the OWASP Mutillidae II application.
  2. Open the login screen...

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