[MoBP] Spidering authenticated applications
Summary: PortSwigger Research describes a Burp Scanner enhancement that lets users control how the Spider handles login forms separately from its configuration for forms in general. The Spider can be set to one of four actions on encountering a login form, and in one of them it submits a configured password into any form containing a password field and a configured username into the text input whose name most resembles a username field.
Bottom line: Authenticated crawling means the scanner can reach the pages behind a login, so the credentials you configure for the Spider determine how much of your application's attack surface gets tested.
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