Skip to Content
Bug Bounty Hunting for Web Security: Find and Exploit Vulnerabilities in Web sites and Applications
book

Bug Bounty Hunting for Web Security: Find and Exploit Vulnerabilities in Web sites and Applications

by Sanjib Sinha
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
232 pages
3h 43m
English
Apress
Content preview from Bug Bounty Hunting for Web Security: Find and Exploit Vulnerabilities in Web sites and Applications
© Sanjib Sinha 2019
S. SinhaBug Bounty Hunting for Web Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5391-5_8

8. Injecting Unintended XML

Sanjib Sinha1 
(1)
Howrah, West Bengal, India
 

Whenever we pen test an application and we see that the application functionality has XML parsing in the backend, we try to pen test the app with XML injection issues. Usually we use an XML parser to check whether the client application’s XML document is properly formatted or not. We also validate the XML documents with that XML parser. Before penetration testing any application with XML injection issues, using XML parsers is a normal procedure. This type of XML injection can cause medium to severe kind of damages to the application. It can alter the intended logic of the ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services
QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Hacking Web Applications The Art of Hacking Series LiveLessons: Security Penetration Testing for Today's DevOps and Cloud Environments

Hacking Web Applications The Art of Hacking Series LiveLessons: Security Penetration Testing for Today's DevOps and Cloud Environments

Omar Santos
Web Application Security
Web Security for Developers
Hands-On Security in DevOps

Hands-On Security in DevOps

Tony Hsiang-Chih Hsu

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781484253915Purchase LinkPublisher Website