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Attacking and Exploiting Modern Web Applications
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Attacking and Exploiting Modern Web Applications

by Simone Onofri, Donato Onofri
August 2023
Intermediate to advanced
338 pages
7h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Part 2: Evergreen Attacks

In the second part of this book, we will meticulously dissect “evergreen attacks,” walking through them step by step. We will focus on perennial vulnerabilities that, despite being well known, perpetually resurface in novel forms.

Practically, we will see a Capture the Flag (CTF) exercise that we prepared to understand SAML better. Then, we will see how we discovered two CVEs (SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting) by reviewing the code of a WordPress plugin, and four CVEs (Command Injection and Path Traversal) on an IoT device by reversing some components.

This part has the following chapters:

  • Chapter 3, Attacking the Authentication Layer – a SAML Use Case
  • Chapter 4, Attacking Internet-Facing Web Applications – ...
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ISBN: 9781801816298