July 2018
Beginner
564 pages
12h 22m
English
So far, we've learned how to manually discover a number of very dangerous vulnerabilities. We've seen how they work and how to exploit them. In this section, we will learn about a tool that will allow us to automatically discover vulnerabilities in web applications. It'll allow us to discover the vulnerabilities that we learned, plus many more. The reason we didn't study this tool at the start because I wanted to teach you how to discover vulnerabilities manually. Also, I wanted you to know how these vulnerabilities occur, so as to understand the reason behind them. So this program is just a tool, it can make mistakes and it can show false positives. It can also miss vulnerabilities in some cases.
Therefore, I wanted ...