Views: 3,707 We first published about XSSYA back in 2014, and it seemed to be pretty popular, there’s not a whole lot of tools in the XSS (Cross Site Scripting) space. For those who are unfamiliar, XSSYA used to be Cross Site Scripting aka XSS Vulnerability Scanner & Confirmation tool – the scanning portion has […]
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XSSYA – Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Scanner Tool
Views: 10,693 XSSYA is a Cross Site Scripting Scanner & Vulnerability Confirmation Tool, it’s written in Python and works by executing an encoded payload to bypass Web Application Firewalls (WAF) which is the first method request and response. If the website/app responds 200 it attempts to use “Method 2” which searches for the payload decoded […]
Acunetix WVS (Web Vulnerability Scanner) 7 Review – Engine & Scanning Improvements
Views: 15,858 We wrote our first review of Acunetix WVS 6 back in January 2009 and published an update about the release of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) 6.5 in June 2009. The team over at Acunetix have been working hard on version 7 for quite some time and released a new build with added […]
Jarlsberg – Learn Web Application Exploits and Defenses
Views: 10,370 This codelab is built around Jarlsberg /yärlz’·bərg/, a small, cheesy web application that allows its users to publish snippets of text and store assorted files. “Unfortunately,” Jarlsberg has multiple security bugs ranging from cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery, to information disclosure, denial of service, and remote code execution. The goal of this […]
PayPal Patches Critical Security Vulnerabilities
Views: 15,595 [ad] PayPal in the news again for a series of fairly high-profile vulnerabilities discovered by the same guy that found the XSS bugs in Google Calendar and Twitter (Nir Goldshlager). I’m glad people are looking at PayPal as I’m sure the volume of monetary transactions that pass through their site on a daily […]