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Attacking and Exploiting Modern Web Applications

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816298
Pages 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Simone Onofri Simone Onofri
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Donato Onofri Donato Onofri
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Attack Preparation
2. Chapter 1: Mindset and Methodologies 3. Chapter 2: Toolset for Web Attacks and Exploitation 4. Part 2: Evergreen Attacks
5. Chapter 3: Attacking the Authentication Layer – a SAML Use Case 6. Chapter 4: Attacking Internet-Facing Web Applications – SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) on WordPress 7. Chapter 5: Attacking IoT Devices – Command Injection and Path Traversal 8. Part 3: Novel Attacks
9. Chapter 6: Attacking Electron JavaScript Applications – from Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) to Remote Command Execution (RCE) 10. Chapter 7: Attacking Ethereum Smart Contracts – Reentrancy, Weak Sources of Randomness, and Business Logic 11. Chapter 8: Continuing the Journey of Vulnerability Discovery 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

An approach to discovering vulnerabilities

Beyond the vulnerabilities and challenges we’ve uncovered, our core interest lies in comprehending the approach to discovering vulnerabilities and giving examples of the techniques to find them.

Understanding what you are doing

The key to the process is understanding our actions and their implications. We will steer clear of the indiscriminate usage of automated tools. Their utility is acknowledged, but we left them outside the book’s scope. We focus on problem-solving by understanding how things work to discover vulnerabilities or overcome challenges. The key is to learn how to make something do something unexpected. The book intends to illustrate a mindset and a modus operandi by providing examples – or instances, as we can say in object-oriented languages – that apply this process.

Getting into the flow

The objective of the process is to comprehend a problem (e.g., how a specific software works, an...

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