Java Script Vulnerability Scanning Software from Port Swigger

Summary: PortSwigger's Burp Scanner uses an embedded, modified Chromium browser to execute JavaScript in target applications, letting it build a fully rendered DOM and reach content that scanners unable to run JavaScript would miss. The scanner parses client-side JavaScript for dangerous assignments to find cross-site scripting flaws and runs instrumented code in the browser for dynamic analysis, and PortSwigger cites a TechValidate survey of its own customers on concern about vulnerabilities in JavaScript and single-page applications.
What's compelling: PortSwigger states that scanners which cannot execute JavaScript risk ignoring a large share of the attack surface across the hundreds of millions of web applications using JavaScript today, so a testing tool that only reads static HTML can leave your JavaScript-heavy applications largely unexamined.

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Topics: Vulnerabilities & Patching
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