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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux Explore the methods and tools of ethical hacking with Kali Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788623377
Length 426 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Juned Ahmed Ansari Juned Ahmed Ansari
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Daniel W. Dieterle Daniel W. Dieterle
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Preface 1. Introduction to Penetration Testing and Web Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Lab with Kali Linux 3. Reconnaissance and Profiling the Web Server 4. Authentication and Session Management Flaws 5. Detecting and Exploiting Injection-Based Flaws 6. Finding and Exploiting Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities 7. Cross-Site Request Forgery, Identification, and Exploitation 8. Attacking Flaws in Cryptographic Implementations 9. AJAX, HTML5, and Client-Side Attacks 10. Other Common Security Flaws in Web Applications 11. Using Automated Scanners on Web Applications 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploiting a CSRF flaw

Exploiting this vulnerability through a GET request (parameters sent within the URL) is as easy as convincing the user to browse to a malicious link that will perform the desired action. On the other hand, to exploit a CSRF vulnerability in a POST request requires creating an HTML page with a form or script that submits the request.

Exploiting CSRF in a POST request

In this section, we will focus on exploiting a POST request. We will use Peruggia's user-creation functionality for this exercise. The first step is that you need to know how the request that you want to replicate works; if you log in as admin to Peruggia and create a new user while capturing the traffic with Burp Suite, you can see...

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