What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with Burp Suite, provides the setup instructions necessary to proceed through the material of the book.

Chapter 2, Getting to Know the Burp Suite of Tools, begins by establishing the target scope and provides overviews of the most commonly used tools within Burp Suite.

Chapter 3, Configuring, Crawling, Auditing, and Reporting with Burp, helps testers to calibrate Burp Suite settings to be less abusive toward the target application.

Chapter 4, Assessing Authentication Schemes, covers the basics of authentication, including an explanation that it is the act of verifying that a person or object’s claim is true.

Chapter 5, Assessing Authorization Checks, helps you understand the basics of authorization, including an explanation that it how an application uses roles to determine user functions.

Chapter 6, Assessing Session Management Mechanisms, dives into the basics of session management, including an explanation that it is how an application keeps track of user activity on a website.

Chapter 7, Assessing Business Logic, covers the basics of business logic testing, including an explanation of some of the more common tests performed in this area.

Chapter 8, Evaluating Input Validation Checks, delves into the basics of data validation testing, including an explanation of some of the more common tests performed in this area.

Chapter 9, Attacking the Client, helps you understand how client-side testing is concerned with the execution of code on the client, typically natively within a web browser or browser plugin. You’ll learn how to use Burp Suite to test the execution of code on the client side to determine the presence of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). You’ll also learn about using DOM Invader within the Burp Suite browser to uncover DOM-based vulnerabilities.

Chapter 10, Working with Burp Suite Macros and Extensions, teaches you how Burp Suite macros enable penetration testers to automate events such as logins or response parameter reads to overcome potential error situations. You will also learn about extensions as additional functionality to Burp Suite, especially a few choice ones for bug bounty hunting.

Chapter 11, Implementing Advanced Topic Attacks, provides a brief explanation of XXE as a vulnerability class targeting applications that parse XML and SSRF as a vulnerability class allowing an attacker to force applications to make unauthorized requests on the attacker’s behalf. You will also learn about hacking GraphQL and JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) using Burp Suite.