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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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Performing an internal port scan to the backend

A port scan is one of the most basic and useful activities of network discovery when you are assessing a network. In applications, security assessment is limited to the scope determined in the assessment, but SSRF and XSPA allow users to perform port scanning from the application. To demonstrate how you can perform this technique, we will use a vulnerable test application, created by Acunetix, which you can find at http://testphp.vulnweb.com/.

This is a vulnerable application that you can use to learn some attacks and test scripts or tools, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Open Burp Suite's ...
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