Practical Web Penetration Testing

Understanding Web Application Vulnerabilities

This chapter is going to be your main pillar of application security. You will learn the logic behind the most popular vulnerabilities in this field. Most attacks that are executed remotely use the web application infrastructure to get in. Finding a vulnerability such as SQL Injection on a site can be very harmful, as the attacker can take complete control of the server.

Web applications are written in different programming languages, but the most popular ones are Java, .NET, and PHP. These days, we see a shift in web application programming, where the JavaScript language or the frontend takes an important part. Companies are using light-weight frontend technologies such as AngularJS to implement ...