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Walking An Application

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Manually review a web application for security issues using only your browsers developer tools. Hacking with just your browser, no tools or scripts.

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35 min

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In this room you will learn how to manually review a web application for security issues using only the in-built tools in your browser. More often than not, automated security tools and scripts will miss many potential vulnerabilities and useful information.


Here is a short breakdown of the in-built browser tools you will use throughout this room:

  • View Source - Use your browser to view the human-readable source code of a website.
  • Inspector - Learn how to inspect page elements and make changes to view usually blocked content.
  • Debugger - Inspect and control the flow of a page's JavaScript
  • Network - See all the network requests a page makes.

Press the "Start Machine" button to start the virtual machine on this task, then wait 2 minutes, and visit the following URL: https://LAB_WEB_URL.p.thmlabs.com (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (this URL will update 2 minutes from when you start the machine)


Answer the questions below
I confirm that I have deployed the virtual machine and opened the website.

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