July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
712 pages
17h 36m
English
book
Improving your Penetration Testing Skills
by Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari, Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh
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XSSer
Cross Site "Scripter" (XSSer) is an automatic framework designed to detect, exploit, and report XSS vulnerabilities in web-based applications. It is included in Kali Linux.
XSSer can detect persistent, reflected, and DOM-based XSS, scan an indicated URL or search Google for potential targets based on a given query, authenticate through different mechanisms, and perform many other tasks.
Let's try a simple scan using BodgeIt's search request as a target. To do that, issue the following command in Kali Linux's Terminal:
xsser -u http://10.7.7.5/bodgeit/search.jsp -g ?q=
Here, XSSer is running over the URL indicated by the -u parameter and scanning using the GET method and the q (-g ?q=) parameter. This means that the scanner will append ...
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