Viewing insertion points - Port Swigger
Summary: PortSwigger's Burp Scanner documentation describes an Insertion points panel in the Audit items tab that lists every insertion point for a request, including those outside the scan configuration's scope, which are labeled Skipped. The tree view groups insertion points by type and name, shows nested points where an application applies multiple layers of encoding to the same data, and notes when a request's method was changed.
What's compelling: The panel lists all insertion points even when they won't be audited, so a security leader reading a scan report can see exactly which parts of a request Burp Scanner skipped and why, rather than assuming full coverage.
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