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Burp Suite Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from  Burp Suite Cookbook - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835081075
Pages 450 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Dr. Sunny Wear Dr. Sunny Wear
Profile icon Dr. Sunny Wear

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Burp Suite 2. Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Burp Suite of Tools 3. Chapter 3: Configuring, Crawling, Auditing, and Reporting with Burp 4. Chapter 4: Assessing Authentication Schemes 5. Chapter 5: Assessing Authorization Checks 6. Chapter 6: Assessing Session Management Mechanisms 7. Chapter 7: Assessing Business Logic 8. Chapter 8: Evaluating Input Validation Checks 9. Chapter 9: Attacking the Client 10. Chapter 10: Working with Burp Suite Macros and Extensions 11. Chapter 11: Implementing Advanced Topic Attacks 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing for exposed session variables

Session variables such as tokens, cookies, or hidden form fields are used by application developers to send data between the client and the server. Since these variables are exposed on the client side, an attacker can manipulate them in an attempt to gain access to unauthorized data or to capture sensitive information.

Burp Suite’s Proxy option provides a feature to enhance the visibility of so-called hidden form fields. This feature allows web application penetration testers to determine the level of sensitivity of the data held in these variables. Likewise, a pentester can determine whether the manipulation of these values produces a different behavior in the application.

Getting ready

Using the OWASP Mutillidae II application and Burp Suite’s Unhide hidden form fields feature under Proxy, we’ll determine whether manipulation of a hidden form field value results in gaining access to unauthorized data.

How to do...

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