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Python Penetration Testing Essentials - Second Edition
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Python Penetration Testing Essentials - Second Edition

by Mohit Raj
May 2018
Beginner
230 pages
4h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Pentesting SQL and XSS

In this chapter, we will discuss some serious attacks on a web application. You must have heard about incidents such as data theft, the cracking of usernames and passwords, the defacement of websites, and so on. These are known to occur mainly due to the vulnerabilities that exist in web applications, which are usually performed with SQL injection and XSS attacks. In Chapter 7, Foot Printing a Web Server and a Web Application, you learned how to see which database software is being used and which OS is running on the web server. Now, we will proceed with our attacks one by one. In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • The SQL injection attack
  • Types of SQL injection attacks
  • An SQL injection attack by Python ...
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