PortSwigger - Web Security Academy

https://portswigger.net/web-security

@PortSwigger Ltd

Web Security Academy

The Web Security Academy is a free online training center for web application security. It includes content from PortSwigger's in-house research team, experienced academics, encouraging theoretical and practical study with truly effective laboratories.

• Web Security Academy main page

• BurpSuite Documentation

Install & Configure Burp Suite

• Burp Suite Configuration

• Getting Started Guide

Quick Method

In my case I installed Burp Suite Community Edition and Chromium on my main machine (Debian OS), by starting BurpSuite and clicking on Proxy -> Intercept -> Open Browser (orange button) it is possible to have Chromium already set for use and communicating directly with Burp.

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Learning Paths

As suggested into HexDump BSCP Technical Guide there's not the methodology and the order of you path is subjective, you can use the existing learning paths, proceed with individual modules, do all the lab apprentice first etc, below is the table relating to a possible personalized study path: https://blog.leonardotamiano.xyz/tech/bscp-technical-guide/

https://portswigger.net/web-security/learning-paths

	MODULE	TYPE	COMPLEXITY	STATUS
1	Informatin Disclosure	Server-Side	Low
2	Essential Skills	Advanced	Low
3	SQL Injection	Server-Side	Low
4	Command Injection	Server-Side	Low
5	Path Traversal	Server-Side	Low
6	XXE Injection	Server-Side	Low
7	File Upload Vulnerabilities	Server-Side	Low
8	Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)	Server-Side	Low
9	Authentication	Server-Side	Low
10	Access Control	Server-Side	Low
11	Clickjacking	Client-Side	Low
12	Web LLM attacks	Advanced	Low
13	Cross-site scripting (XSS)	Client-Side	Medium
14	Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)	Client-Side	Medium
15	Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)	Client-Side	Medium
16	DOM-based vulnerabilities	Client-Side	Medium
17	Server-Side Template Injection	Advanced	Medium
18	Business Logic Vulnerabilities	Server-Side	Medium
19	HTTP Host Header Attacks	Advanced	Medium
20	Prototype Pollution	Advanced	Medium
21	WebSockets	Client-Side	Medium
22	JWT attacks	Advanced	Medium
23	GraphQL API Vulnerabilities	Advanced	Medium
24	Insecure Deserialization	Advanced	Medium
25	OAuth Authentication	Advanced	High
26	Race Conditions	Server-Side	High
27	HTTP Request Smuggling	Advanced	High
28	Web Cache Poisoning	Advanced	High
29	Web Cache Deception	Server-Side	High

Personally, i'm using a mixed approach.