
Learn practical web app penetration testing with Burp Suite apprentice labs, bug bounty insights, covering SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, SSRF, clickjacking, command injection, and directory traversal with Martin Volk.
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Explore a SQL injection vulnerability in the where clause of the product category filter that reveals hidden data in the burp web security academy apprentice labs walkthrough.
Explore a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in the html context where input is not encoded, demonstrated in a search feature with a script payload triggering an alert.
Explore a stored XSS into HTML context with nothing encoded by testing a blog comment field, posting a script payload, and observing the reflected payload in the page.
Demonstrate dom xss in the document.write sink using location.search as the source, and show how to inspect dom and source code to trigger an onload alert.
Demonstrate a dom xss by exploiting an inner HTML sink through a user-controlled location.search, showing how unsanitized input renders HTML and triggers in-browser payloads.
Identify and reproduce a DOM XSS vulnerability in a jQuery selector sink triggered by a hashchange event on the home page, using an exploit server and payloads to exfiltrate cookies.
Demonstrates a reflected xss vulnerability in a value attribute with angle brackets that is html-encoded, showing how to break out with quotes and an onmouseover event to trigger an alert.
Demonstrate a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in the anchor href attribute with double quotes HTML-encoded, showing how unfiltered input can inject JavaScript that triggers an alert.
Demonstrates a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability in a JavaScript string with HTML-encoded angle brackets. Shows breaking out of a variable to trigger an alert reflected in page, verified via Burp.
Shows a CSRF vulnerability with no protections, where an attacker can exploit an unprotected post request to change a victim's email and potentially take over the account.
Demonstrate clickjacking to prefill a form's email field via a URL parameter using an overlaying iframe, then require the user to click to submit a post request.
Explore bypassing a frame buster in clickjacking by using a sandboxed iframe with allow forms, aligning the click region, and pre-filling a user email via a sea surf token.
Explore how a basic origin reflection in cross-origin resource sharing risks exposing the api key by misconfiguring access-control-allow-origin and access-control-allow-credentials in an authenticated session.
Explains a cors vulnerability with trusted null origin by using a sandboxed iframe to set the origin to null and harvest the api key.
Explore xml external entity injection (xxe) to exfiltrate files by manipulating xml input and external entities, revealing /etc/passwd contents via a vulnerable stock endpoint.
Exploit an external entity injection to trigger SSRF, accessing an AWS EC2 metadata endpoint and exfiltrating security credentials via a crafted XML payload.
Demonstrate how basic ssrf manipulates a web app to reach internal loopback resources, access the admin interface via the stock check flow, and delete a user through url manipulation.
Explore a basic server-side request forgery attack against an internal admin panel. Access the internal system at 1921680.118:8080 to delete the user Carlos via the admin interface.
Explain an OS command injection in a simple case by controlling input to a shopping app, enabling execution of system commands like whoami, ls, and id via Burp Repeater.
Demonstrate file path traversal (directory traversal) in a simple lab by manipulating the image file parameter to access the root and view the passwd file using Burp repeater.
Welcome to the Burp Suite Apprentice – Web Application Penetration Testing & Bug Bounty Hunting training course.
Important note: This course is NOT teaching the actual usage of Burp Suite and its features. This course is proving a step-by-step walkthrough through the apprentice labs with detailed explanations on how to find and exploit web app vulnerabilities.
Your instructor is Martin Voelk. He is a Cyber Security veteran with 25 years of experience. Martin holds some of the highest certification incl. CISSP, OSCP, OSWP, Portswigger BSCP, CCIE, PCI ISA and PCIP. He works as a consultant for a big tech company and engages in Bug Bounty programs where he found thousands of critical and high vulnerabilities.
This course features all current 52 Apprentice labs. Martin is solving them all and giving useful insight on how to find and exploit these vulnerabilities. He is not just inserting the payload but explains each step on finding the vulnerability and why it can be exploited in a certain way. The videos are easy to follow along and replicate. Martin is also dropping a lot of tips and tricks for those who wish to get the Burp Suite Certified Practitioner certification (BSCP). This training is highly recommended for anyone who wants to start out in Web Application Penetration Testing, Web Application Bug Bounty Hunting or as a pre-requisite for the Professional course towards the Burp Suite Certified Practitioner certification (BSCP) certification.
It will feature all Apprentice Labs in the following sections:
· SQL injection
· Cross-site scripting
· Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
· Clickjacking
· Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)
· XML external entity (XXE) injection
· Server-side request forgery (SSRF)
· OS command injection
· Directory traversal
· Access control vulnerabilities
· Authentication
· WebSockets
· Insecure deserialization
· Information disclosure
· Business logic vulnerabilities
· HTTP Host header attacks
· OAuth authentication
· File upload vulnerabilities
· JWT
· GraphQL API vulnerabilities
· Race conditions
· NoSQL injection
· API testing
· Web LLM attacks
· Web Cache Deception
· Apprentice Mystery Labs
· AI Automation
Notes & Disclaimer
Portswigger labs are a public and a free service from Portswigger for anyone to use to sharpen their skills. All you need is to sign up for a free account. I will update this course with new labs as they are published. I will to respond to questions in a reasonable time frame. Learning Web Application Pen Testing / Bug Bounty Hunting is a lengthy process, so please don’t feel frustrated if you don’t find a bug right away. Try to use Google, read Hacker One reports and research each feature in-depth. This course is for educational purposes only. This information is not to be used for malicious exploitation and must only be used on targets you have permission to attack.