This book is a practical guide to discovering and exploiting security flaws in web applications. The authors explain each category of vulnerability using real-world examples, screen shots and code extracts. The book is extremely practical in focus, and describes in detail the steps involved in detecting and exploiting each kind of security weakness found within a variety of applications such as online banking, e-commerce and other web applications.

The topics covered include bypassing login mechanisms, injecting code, exploiting logic flaws and compromising other users. Because every web application is different, attacking them entails bringing to bear various general principles, techniques and experience in an imaginative way. The most successful hackers go beyond this, and find ways to automate their bespoke attacks. This handbook describes a proven methodology that combines the virtues of human intelligence and computerized brute force, often with devastating results.

The authors are professional penetration testers who have been involved in web application security for nearly a decade. They have presented training courses at the Black Hat security conferences throughout the world. Under the alias "PortSwigger", Dafydd developed the popular Burp Suite of web application hack tools.

作者简介：

Dafydd Stuttard 世界知名安全顾问、作家、软件开发人士。牛津大学博士，MDSec公司联合创始人，尤其擅长Web应用程序和编译软件的渗透测试。Dafydd以网名PortSwigger蜚声安全界，是众所周知的Web应用程序集成攻击平台Burp Suite的开发者。

Marcus Pinto 资深渗透测试专家，剑桥大学硕士，MDSec公司联合创始人。Marcus为全球金融、政府、电信、博彩、零售等行业顶尖组织和机构提供Web应用程序渗透测试和安全防御的咨询与培训。