URI Encoding

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scott_c

20 Oct, 2015 06:28 PM

I had a question based on some behavior I've seen in testing the scanner. I've noticed that it looks like in each of the attack requests that the URI is url-encoded. In some cases testing without this might be more preferable for some XSS attacks with some applications and from the code that I looked over, it does look like Form.encode is used. I was wondering if there had been any consideration into having a command line option for enabling/disabling url-encoding or trying attacks both ways during a scan? I could see where there would be situations in which trying both ways may be preferable in some application scenarios.

  1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Tasos Laskos on 20 Oct, 2015 07:35 PM

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    It was considered in the past but I must have gotten sidetracked by other issues.
    I did a quick test and it looks like it's possible (with a tiny patch to a dependency, but it works).

    Would you like to open a feature request for this?

  2. 2 Posted by scott_c on 20 Oct, 2015 07:40 PM

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    Will do. Thank you.

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  4. Tasos Laskos closed this discussion on 20 Oct, 2015 09:28 PM.

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