Burp Suite

Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. It ranges from mapping and analyzing an application's attack surface to finding and exploiting vulnerabilities.

When to Use

• Web Application Penetration Testing: Auditing web applications for OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS, SSRF, IDOR).
• HTTP Traffic Interception & Modification: Inspecting and tampering with web and mobile app API requests in real time.
• Automated Vulnerability Scanning: Running active and passive scans using Burp Scanner against staging environments.
• Custom Security Automation: Writing custom security extensions via the Montoya API or Python/Java extensions.

Quick Start

# Configure local browser to forward traffic through Burp Proxy
# Default proxy listener: 127.0.0.1:8080