Identify blacklist characters
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Description
I would find it useful if ZAP were to iterate through each parameter that responds immediately
with a series of characters in order to identify any that may be filtered out. This
would be helpful for either XSS or SQLi. For example if the application filters out
' " ` ; - you would have to take that into account when trying to craft new attacks.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by adriendb on 2014-11-10 19:18:12
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Research direction
No file or test is named. Start by tracing how ZAP iterates request parameters and how its XSS and SQLi attack flows process responses; done means checking parameters with candidate characters and exposing which characters appear to be filtered so later attacks can account for them.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100