Param Miner
Summary: Param Miner is a Burp Suite extension by James Kettle of PortSwigger that identifies hidden, unlinked parameters, using diffing logic from Backslash Powered Scanner and a binary search technique to guess up to 65,536 parameter names per request. Names come from a built-in wordlist plus words harvested from in-scope traffic, and in Burp Suite Pro identified parameters are reported as scanner issues.
Why it matters: The tool is aimed at finding web cache poisoning vulnerabilities, and it can run guessing attacks across thousands of requests at once or auto-mine all in-scope traffic - so the same capability that helps your testers map hidden parameters is available to anyone probing your own cache behavior.
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