Vulnerability Scanners
A number of different tools exist for performing automated vulnerability scans of web applications. These scanners have the benefit of
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Manual Request Tools
The manual request component of the integrated test suites provides the basic facility to issue a single request and view
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After the essential web browser, the most useful item in your toolkit when attacking a web application is an intercepting
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Some attacks on web applications can be performed using only a standard web browser; however, the majority of them require
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Many users access web applications from a shared environment in which an attacker may have direct access to the same
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ActiveX controls are of particular interest to an attacker who is targeting other users. When an application installs a control
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Session fixation vulnerabilities typically arise when an application creates an anonymous session for each user when they first access the
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JSON hijacking is a special version of an XSRF attack, which in certain circumstances can violate the objectives of the
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Frame injection is a relatively simple vulnerability that arises from the fact that in many browsers, if a web site
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HTTP header injection vulnerabilities arise when user-controllable data is inserted in an unsafe manner into an HTTP header returned by
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