Practical Web Penetration Testing

A quick example

Before I start to dig deeper into the functionality of each section, it is best to start with a simple example, so that you can quickly visualize how you can use this amazing application. "Not just talking but by doing!"

This is going to be an oversimplified example, so I will not go into too much detail. I want you to understand the big picture. Later in this chapter, you will learn the nitty-gritty details of the functionalities:

1. Fire Burp up, and open your browser in Kali Linux (I already set the Proxy settings in Firefox; I will show you how to do that later).
2. Browse to the Mutillidae home page; you will see that the page is not loading, and that's normal, because the Proxy in Burp has intercepted the request and is ...