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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Identify, exploit, and prevent web application vulnerabilities with Kali Linux 2018.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788991513

Length 404 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

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Preface

1. Setting Up Kali Linux and the Testing Lab FREE CHAPTER

2. Reconnaissance

3. Using Proxies, Crawlers, and Spiders

4. Testing Authentication and Session Management

5. Cross-Site Scripting and Client-Side Attacks

6. Exploiting Injection Vulnerabilities

7. Exploiting Platform Vulnerabilities

8. Using Automated Scanners

9. Bypassing Basic Security Controls

10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities

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Finding vulnerabilities in WordPress with WPScan

WordPress is one of the most used Content Management Systems (CMS), if not the most used, in the world. A CMS is an application - usually a web application - that allows users to create fully functional websites easily with no or little programming knowledge. WPScan is a vulnerability scanner specialized in detecting vulnerabilities in WordPress sites.

In this recipe, we will use WPScan to identify vulnerable components on a WordPress site installed in the OWASP BWA virtual machine.

How to do it...

WPScan is a command-line tool; open a Terminal to start using it:

Run WPScan against our target with the wpscan http://192.168.56.11/wordpress/ command; the URL is the location of the WordPress site we want to scan.
If this is the first time you are running WPScan, it will ask to update the database, which requires internet connection. In our laboratory setup, the Kali Linux VM doesn't have internet connection, so it is a good idea first to change its...

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Authors (1)

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez is an experienced penetration tester currently working for one of the top security testing service providers in Australia. He obtained leading security and penetration testing certifications, namely Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), EC-Council Certified Security Administrator (ECSA), and GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN).

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