Burp v1.4 preview - Session handling: putting it all together
Summary: PortSwigger's Burp v1.4 preview adds session handling rules that let Intruder, Scanner and Repeater keep an authenticated session valid and supply a fresh anti-CSRF token on each request. The example configuration uses three rules and three macros: one adds cookies from Burp's cookie jar, one runs a macro to check the session and logs the user back in if invalid, and one fetches the form to update the nonce parameter.
What you should know: Automated testing of token-protected functions previously stalled on two problems - keeping the session valid and getting a valid token per request - and the new rules handle both, at the cost of extra behind-the-scenes requests that make responses slower.
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