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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 RFI

RFI is an attack that attempts to access external URLs and remotely located files. This kind of attack is possible due to parameter manipulation, a lack of server-side checks, and a lack of whitelisting for outbound traffic at the firewall level. These oversights may lead to data exfiltration of user information to external servers controlled by an attacker.

Getting ready

Using OWASP Mutillidae II as our target application, let’s determine whether it contains any RFI vulnerabilities.

Ensure Burp Suite and OWASP BWA VM are running and that Burp Suite is configured in the Firefox browser used to view the OWASP BWA applications.

How to do it...

  1. From the OWASP BWA landing page, click the link to the OWASP Mutillidae II application.
  2. Open the login screen of OWASP Mutillidae II in the Firefox browser. From the top menu, click Login.
  3. Find the request you just performed within the Proxy | HTTP history table. Look for the call to the login...
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Published in: Oct 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835081075

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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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