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Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials
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Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

by Carlos A. Lozano, Shahmeer Amir
November 2018
Beginner to intermediate
270 pages
7h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Detecting and exploiting open redirections

There are some redirections that are easy to detect  most redirections use a GET request. Others are a little more difficult to detect in simple view and need the use of the HTTP proxy to confirm them. Let's view another example:

www.testsite.com/process.php?r=otherplace.com (moidifcar por una real) 

In this kind of redirection, it is obvious that the variable is acting as flow control. Now, let's get Burp Suite to confirm the redirection and analyze it using the following steps:

  1. Open the website that you think is using redirections.
  2. Stop the request using the Burp Suite's Proxy, by clicking on the Intercept is on button:
  1. Use the secondary click to display the options menu, and click on Send ...
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