Running your first scan with Burp Suite Professional - Port Swigger
Summary: PortSwigger's tutorial walks through launching a first automated scan in Burp Suite Professional: enter a URL in the Scan launcher, pick the Lightweight preset, and the scanner crawls the target before auditing for vulnerabilities. Lightweight scans run for a maximum of 15 minutes, and the tutorial notes Burp Scanner is available only in Professional and DAST editions, not Community Edition.
Bottom line: The tutorial warns that scans can have unexpected effects on some applications and says to use Burp Scanner only against non-production systems until you are familiar with its settings, and never against third-party sites without the owner's authorization.
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