Course 27 - Hacking Web Applications, Penetration Testing, CTF | Episode 13: Essential Web Application Penetration Testing and Scanning Tool

In this lesson, you’ll learn about:

• Web application penetration testing workflows, focusing on discovering hidden resources, identifying vulnerabilities, and validating security weaknesses in authorized testing environments.
• Content discovery tools, including:
  • DirBuster for dictionary-based directory and file enumeration.
  • Dirb (often referenced similarly in labs) for brute-forcing hidden paths.
• Vulnerability scanning utilities, such as:
  • Nikto for detecting dangerous files, outdated services, and misconfigurations.
  • WPScan for auditing WordPress installations, enumerating plugins, themes, and users.
• Exploitation and injection testing tools, including:
  • sqlmap for automating the detection and validation of SQL injection vulnerabilities.
  • Wfuzz for fuzzing parameters, brute-forcing inputs, and discovering unlinked resources.
• Reconnaissance and surface mapping tools, such as:
  • Aquatone for generating visual attack surface maps via automated screenshots.
  • CeWL for spidering websites to create targeted wordlists for testing.
• Practical lab application, reinforcing hands-on usage to understand how these tools complement each other during reconnaissance, enumeration, and vulnerability validation phases.

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