Professional 1.5.19
Summary: PortSwigger released Burp Suite Professional 1.5.19 on 25 November 2013, reworking how Burp places and encodes scan payloads in insertion points after earlier versions wrongly URL-encoded characters in locations where encoding was not needed, causing some edge-case vulnerabilities to be missed. The release also changed Burp's contract with extensions so Burp-provided insertion points now encode payloads automatically while extension-provided checks submit raw payloads, and added "Select all" and "Select none" buttons to the Scanner check and reporting panels.
Key Takeaway: The encoding flaw meant Burp could miss edge-case vulnerabilities in applications that rejected its non-standard encoding, so scan results from earlier versions may not reflect what was actually present in those applications.
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