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API testing

This learning path teaches you how to test APIs that aren't fully used by the website front-end. You'll learn key API recon skills to help you discover more attack surface. In addition, you'll learn how to identify server-side parameter pollution vulnerabilities that may impact internal APIs.

Contents

Get started: API recon

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GET STARTED

API recon 0 of 1

API recon Get started

API documentation 0 of 4

API documentation

Discovering API documentation

Lab: Exploiting an API endpoint using documentation APPRENTICE

Using machine-readable documentation

Identifying and interacting with API endpoints 0 of 6

Identifying API endpoints

Interacting with API endpoints

Identifying supported HTTP methods

Identifying supported content types

Lab: Finding and exploiting an unused API endpoint PRACTITIONER

Using Intruder to find hidden endpoints

Finding hidden parameters 0 of 1

Finding hidden parameters

Mass assignment vulnerabilities 0 of 4

Mass assignment vulnerabilities

Identifying hidden parameters

Testing mass assignment vulnerabilities

Lab: Exploiting a mass assignment vulnerability PRACTITIONER

Preventing vulnerabilities in APIs 0 of 1

Preventing vulnerabilities in APIs

Server-side parameter pollution 0 of 1

Server-side parameter pollution

Testing for server-side parameter pollution in the query string 0 of 6

Testing for server-side parameter pollution in the query string

Truncating query strings

Injecting invalid parameters

Injecting valid parameters

Overriding existing parameters

Lab: Exploiting server-side parameter pollution in a query string PRACTITIONER

Testing for server-side parameter pollution in REST paths 0 of 1

Testing for server-side parameter pollution in REST paths

Testing for server-side parameter pollution in structured data formats 0 of 2

Testing for server-side parameter pollution in structured data formats

Testing for server-side parameter pollution in structured data formats - Continued

Testing for server-side parameter pollution with automated tools 0 of 1

Testing with automated tools

Preventing server-side parameter pollution 0 of 1

Preventing server-side parameter pollution