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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 the circumvention of workflows

Shopping cart to payment gateway interactions must be tested by web application penetration testers to ensure the workflow cannot be performed out of sequence. A payment should never be made unless verification of the cart contents is checked on the server side first. In the event this check is missing, an attacker can change the price, quantity, or both, prior to the actual purchase.

Getting ready

Using the OWASP WebGoat application and Burp, we will exploit a business logic design flaw in which there is no server-side validation prior to a purchase.

How to do it...

  1. Ensure the owaspbwa VM is running. Select the OWASP WebGoat application from the initial landing page of the VM. The landing page will be configured to an IP address specific to your machine.
  2. After you’ve clicked the OWASP WebGoat link, you will be prompted for login credentials. Use these credentials—username: guest; password: guest.
  3. After...
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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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