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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite
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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

by Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
366 pages
7h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding the insertion points

Burp Scanner is a very efficient scanner, as it targets various insertion points. It targets the input fields, a set of headers, such as cookie, referrer, user agent, and so on. Burp Scanner analyzes the targets individually by sending payloads individually to see how the application handles the payloads. A better understanding to see the insertion points is as follows:

Burp also handles data encoding for various parameters. It understands the parameter in use and any encoding if it follows. Once it detects the encoding, it fuzzes the parameter by fuzzing the payloads by encoding them as shown in the following ...

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