Professional / Community 2024.5.3
Summary: PortSwigger released Burp Suite Professional/Community 2024.5.3 on 18 June 2024, adding Burp Scanner support for WebSockets so it can crawl sites that rely on them, including WebSocket-based recorded logins, though the scanner does not scan WebSocket traffic itself. The release also adds a formatted "See as events" view for editing recorded logins without hand-editing JSON, extends match and replace rules to WebSocket messages, removes client-side SQL injection scan checks tied to the discontinued WebSQL API, and upgrades Burp's browser to Chromium 126.
Bottom line: The new WebSocket match and replace rules are described as making it easier to bypass client-side security controls like HTML encoding on characters such as <, >, ", and ', and to modify user permissions to reach hidden functionality - so any control enforced only in the browser is now easier to strip out of WebSocket traffic passing through the Proxy.
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