Testing for DOM clobbering with DOM Invader - Port Swigger
Summary: PortSwigger's DOM Invader tool can now automatically test for DOM clobbering, a technique where injecting HTML into a page manipulates the DOM to change the behavior of JavaScript on that page. The check is disabled by default to avoid interfering with a target site's functionality, and must be turned on under Attack types in the DOM Invader settings menu followed by a browser reload before it scans as you browse.
Why it matters: DOM clobbering changes how a page's own JavaScript behaves, so a flaw here can surface in application logic rather than in an obvious injection point - and because the tool ships with this check off by default, teams that never toggle it on get no coverage for it at all.
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