This release includes a new engine for static analysis of JavaScript code. This enables Burp Scanner to report a range of new vulnerabilities, including:
- DOM-based XSS
- JavaScript injection
- Client-side SQL injection
- WebSocket hijacking
- Local file path manipulation
- DOM-based open redirection
- Cookie manipulation
- Ajax request header manipulation
- DOM-based denial of service
- Web message manipulation
- HTML5 storage manipulation
For more details, see the blog post.