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Published in Nov 2015

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ISBN-13 9781783988525

Pages 312 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Web Penetration Testing

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Introduction to Penetration Testing and Web Applications

2. Setting up Your Lab with Kali Linux

3. Reconnaissance and Profiling the Web Server

4. Major Flaws in Web Applications

5. Attacking the Server Using Injection-based Flaws

6. Exploiting Clients Using XSS and CSRF Flaws

7. Attacking SSL-based Websites

8. Exploiting the Client Using Attack Frameworks

9. AJAX and Web Services – Security Issues

10. Fuzzing Web Applications

Index

SQL injection

Interacting with a backend database to retrieve and write data is one of the most critical tasks performed by a web application. Relational databases that store the data in a series of tables are commonly used to accomplish this. Querying the data from the backend database is done using SQL.

The input taken from cookies, input forms, and URL variables are used to build SQL statements that are passed back to the database for processing. As user input is involved in building the SQL statement, the developer of the application needs to carefully validate it before passing it to the backend database.

SQL statements

In order to understand the SQL injection flaw, you need have some knowledge of SQL. The structured query language allows the developer to perform the following actions on the database:

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Statement	Description
`SELECT`	It allows information to be retrieved from the database
`UPDATE`	It allows modification of existing data in the database
`INSERT`	It allows inserting...