Content discovery - Port Swigger
Summary: PortSwigger's documentation describes a Burp Suite content discovery function that finds content and functionality not linked from visible pages or reachable by Burp Scanner's crawl. The discovery engine works recursively, deriving new tasks when a directory or file is found and prioritizing them by how likely they are to surface new content, with results shown in a session-specific site map that can be merged into the main suite site map.
What you should know: The tool exists because unlinked directories and files are a real part of the attack surface, and the recursive engine keeps generating new tasks from each discovery - so the exposure a team can't see from browsing is exactly what gets enumerated first.
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