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Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook

You're reading from Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook Hacking tactics, techniques, and procedures for testing web applications and APIs

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801817332

Length 284 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Perl

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (3):

Ryan Soper

Nestor Torres

Ahmed Almoailu

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with OWASP Zed Attack Proxy

2. Chapter 2: Navigating the UI FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Configuring, Crawling, Scanning, and Reporting

4. Chapter 4: Authentication and Authorization Testing

5. Chapter 5: Testing of Session Management

6. Chapter 6: Validating (Data) Inputs – Part 1

7. Chapter 7: Validating (Data) Inputs – Part 2

8. Chapter 8: Business Logic Testing

9. Chapter 9: Client-Side Testing

10. Chapter 10: Advanced Attack Techniques

11. Chapter 11: Advanced Adventures with ZAP

12. Index

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Testing for HTML injection

HTML injection is when a user has access to an input parameter on the web application and can inject arbitrary HTML code into that web page.

Getting ready

This lab requires a PortSwigger Academy account and ZAP to intercept requests and responses from the server to your browser.

How to do it...

In this recipe, you will utilize the search blog feature, which has a vulnerability to DOM-based XSS. The attack will make use of an innerHTML assignment that modifies a div element’s HTML contents using information from location.search. The result will be performing a cross-site scripting attack that calls the alert function to finish the lab.

Perform the following steps to get started:

Navigate to the URL with the browser proxied to ZAP and log into the PortSwigger Academy website to launch the lab (https://portswigger.net/web-security/cross-site-scripting/dom-based/lab-innerhtml-sink).
Within the lab application, type the following...

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Authors (3)

Ryan Soper

Ryan Soper

Ryan Soper is a lead penetration tester, senior application security engineer, and veteran of the US Coast Guard. His experience includes penetration testing, application security, and IT consulting, among more, throughout his career. He's an active member and organizer of the DefCon813 chapter, a member of the OWASP Tampa chapter, and enjoys connecting with others throughout the community at conferences or other various networking events. He can be contacted at ryans.wapt at gmail.com or followed on Twitter at soapszzz. Ryan is an ambassador for the Innocent Lives Foundation (ILF), a group of hackers that work with law enforcement to protect children from online predators. Your support will help the team to continue their important work. I urge you to consider making a donation to the ILF at innocentlivesfoundation.org/donate/.

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Nestor Torres

Nestor Torres

Nestor N Torres is a senior application security engineer and web application penetration tester. His experience includes application security, IT consulting, penetration testing, and mobile penetration testing. He is an active member and organizer of the DefCon813 chapter and OWASP Tampa chapter, who enjoys helping new colleagues interested in joining the cyber security field. You can find him at his local BSides in Orlando and Tampa and other conferences such as Defcon and OWASP events. He can be contacted on Twitter at n3stortorres.

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Ahmed Almoailu

Ahmed Almoailu

Ahmed Almoailu is a cyber security engineer with years of experience in vulnerability management, risk management, network security, cloud security, and endpoint security. He has a Master of Science in Cybersecurity and a Bachelor of Science in computer information systems from Saint Leo University and is currently working in healthcare. He is a member of the DefCon813 chapter and participates in security events in the community. Ahmed holds CASP+, Security+, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), eJPT, and AWS Cloud Practitioner certifications.

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