Welcome, to this course, "PenTesting with OWASP ZAP" a fine-grained course that enables you to test web applications, automated testing, manual testing, fuzzing web applications, perform bug hunting and complete web assessment using ZAP. Focused over ease of use and with special abilities to take down the web applications that most of the tool will leave you with unnoticed and or, untouched critical vulnerabilities in web applications but then the ZAP comes to rescue and do the rest what other tools can not find.

This course is completely focused on pen testing web applications with ZAP. The ZAP is a fine-grained tool that every penetration testers, hacker, developers must have in their arsenal and hence required a solid understanding and through training to perform security testing from its core. ZAP can work with and integrate with many tools in the hacking, penetration testing segment such as SQLmap, Nmap, Burp suite, Nikto and every tool inside kali Linux. Invoking with burp gives much flexibility to combine the power of ZAP and burp suite at the same time and incomplete order.

Some special features of the ZAP

• Quickstart using “point and shoot”
• Intercepting proxy with liked browser
• Proxying through zap then scanning
• Manual testing with automated testing
• ZAP HUD mode, to test apps and attack in a single page
• Attack modes for different use cases.
• Active scanning with passive scanning
• A requester for Manual testing
• Plug-n-hack support
• Can be easily integrated into CI/CD
• Powerful REST-based API
• Traditional AJAX spider
• Support for the wide range of scripting languages
• Smart card support
• Port scanning
• Parameter analysis
• Invoking and using other apps I.e: Burp suite
• Session management
• Anti-CSRF token handling
• Dynamic SSL certificates support

Below are the Vulnerabilities that ZAP security tests against a web application and webserver to hunt for loopholes:

• Path Traversal, Remote File Inclusion, Source Code Disclosure - /WEB-INF folder, Server Side Include, Cross-Site Scripting (Reflected)
• Cross-Site Scripting (Persistent) - Prime, Cross-Site Scripting (Persistent) - Spider, Cross-Site Scripting (Persistent), SQL Injection
• Server-Side Code Injection, Remote OS Command Injection, Directory Browsing, External Redirect, Buffer Overflow Medium
• Format String Error, CRLF Injection Medium, Parameter Tampering, Script Active Scan Rules, Remote Code Execution - Shell Shock
• Anti CSRF Tokens Scanner, Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability, Cross-Domain Misconfiguration, Source Code Disclosure - CVE-2012-1823
• Remote Code Execution - CVE-2012-1823, Session Fixation, SQL Injection - MySQL, SQL Injection - Hypersonic SQL, SQL Injection - Oracle
• SQL Injection - PostgreSQL, Advanced SQL Injection, XPath Injection, XML External Entity Attack, Generic Padding Oracle
• Expression Language Injection, Source Code Disclosure - SVN, Backup File Disclosure, Integer Overflow Error, Insecure HTTP Method
• HTTP Parameter Pollution scanner, Possible Username Enumeration, Source Code Disclosure - Git, Source Code Disclosure - File Inclusion
• Httpoxy - Proxy Header Misuse, LDAP Injection, SQL Injection - SQLite, Cross-Site Scripting (DOM Based), SQL Injection - MsSQL
• Example Active Scanner: Denial of Service, An example active scan rule which loads data from a file, Cloud Metadata Potentially Exposed
• Relative Path Confusion, Apache Range Header DoS, User-Agent Fuzzer, HTTP Only Site, Proxy Disclosure, ELMAH Information Leak
• Trace.axd Information, .htaccess Information, .env Information Leak, XSLT Injection.