# Module 14. Hacking Web Applications

Web application hacking is the exploitation of applications via HTTP by manipulating the application logics via an application’s graphical web interface, tampering with the uniform resource identifier (URI) or HTTP elements not contained in the URI. Methods for hacking web applications, including SQL injection attacks, cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgeries (CSRF), and insecure communications.

The last module involved acting as an attacker and assessing the security of a web server platform. Now, it is time to move to the next, and most important, stage of a security assessment. An expert ethical hacker or penetration tester (hereafter, pen tester) must test web applications for various attacks such as brute-force, XSS, parameter tampering, and CSRF, and then secure the web applications from such attacks.

The labs in this module provide hands-on experience with various web application attacks to help audit web application security in the target organization.


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