Web App Pentest - Part 5 XSS

In my previous article we have seen which are the different ways of fuzzing including suffix and prefix. We used those fuzzing techniques in order to find error messages in web application. Now as we know how to fuzz, we will use that skill to find XSS generally known as cross site scripting.

Testing For XSS

Without wasting much time, let us go to, Document viewer page under A3 Cross site scripting(XSS) module. In there are various method of exploiting XSS but first we will choose simple method which is HTTP attribute.

Web App Pentest - Part 4 Suffix & Prefix in Fuzzing

In this series of article, last time we talked about the fuzzing and various SQL statement special characters which can be used in fuzzing the web application. In this article I am going to focus on various prefixes and suffix of fuzzing in order to fuzz the target web application.

Web App Pentest - Part 3 Fuzzing

When We test the web application, we do not test a single page but we test lot of page of a single web application. So each page may have more than one variable so technically you will be engaging with ton of variables within your web application test. So when you inject anything to the input it is good to know what kind of effect your injection is making to the server. In this part of these article series we will look at the importance of simple alphabetic injection along with the web page encoding technology and how it does effect on our testing and result.

Web App Pentest - Part 2 Indentifying Injection Points

If your web page is static, you cannot test it as far as security concern. You can test it at some sort of view but you can’t play with it much as compare to dynamic page. Nikto scanner is a good utility which works best in testing static sites. There has to be some interaction between client and server via login panel, comment section, register page, contact us form and so on.

Web App Pentest - Part 1 Introduction

In this series of articles, I am going to demonstrate how you can manually exploit the vulnerability of a web application, compared to using any automation tool, in order to find vulnerabilities in the application. Almost all companies worldwide focus on manual testing of web application rather than running web application scanners, which limit your knowledge and skills and the scope of finding a vulnerability with your testing.

For the whole series I am going to use these programs:

Juicy Areas of Web Application For Pentesters

In this tutorial I am going to write small things which everyone knows already but I am trying to convey it in another manner of checklist. I am going to talk on some juicy areas for pen tester. Mainly it will be focusing on fingerprinting concept. While doing fingerprinting of any website, which are the areas mainly a pen tester or web application security analyst should target at high priority.

First thing to check is the server name and the version information. This information is really helpful to pen testers because older versions have already exploits in market. So If they got older server version they can directly check whether that exploit is working or not.