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Published inOct 2023
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Dr. Sunny Wear
Dr. Sunny Wear
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Dr. Sunny Wear

Dr. Sunny Wear is a web security architect and penetration tester. She provides secure coding classes, creates software, and performs penetration testing on web/API and mobile applications. Sunny has more than 25 years of hands-on software programming, architecture, and security experience and holds a Doctor of Science in Cybersecurity. She is a content creator on Pluralsight, with three courses on Burp Suite. She is a published author, a developer of mobile apps such as Burp Tool Buddy, and a content creator on courses related to web security and penetration testing. She regularly speaks and holds classes at security conferences such as Defcon, Hackfest, and BSides.
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Testing for browser cache weaknesses

Browser caching is provided for improved performance and a better end user experience. However, when sensitive data is typed into a browser by the user, such data can also be cached in the browser history. We can view this cached data by examining the browser’s cache or simply pressing the browser’s back button.

Getting ready

Using the browser’s back button, determine whether login credentials are cached, allowing for unauthorized access. Examine these steps in Burp to understand the vulnerability.

How to do it...

  1. Log in to the Mutillidae application as admin with a password of admin:
Figure 4.47 – Logging in as admin

Figure 4.47 – Logging in as admin

  1. Now, log out of the application by clicking the Logout button from the top menu.
Figure 4.48 – Logout

Figure 4.48 – Logout

  1. Verify you are logged out by noting the Not Logged In message:
Figure 4.49 – Verifying that you’re not logged in

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Dr. Sunny Wear

Dr. Sunny Wear is a web security architect and penetration tester. She provides secure coding classes, creates software, and performs penetration testing on web/API and mobile applications. Sunny has more than 25 years of hands-on software programming, architecture, and security experience and holds a Doctor of Science in Cybersecurity. She is a content creator on Pluralsight, with three courses on Burp Suite. She is a published author, a developer of mobile apps such as Burp Tool Buddy, and a content creator on courses related to web security and penetration testing. She regularly speaks and holds classes at security conferences such as Defcon, Hackfest, and BSides.
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