Introduction
Okay let’s tackle this beast, as i am writing this, i’m trying to prepare you for what’s coming because this will not be easy at all. Burp suite pro makes it somewhat easier but even then, you still need to be able to interpret the scan results and exploit the vulnerability. This is where many hackers will fail. It’s as simple as that, this is not something you do for fun, this is serious business.
This vulnerability often goes unnoticed as it’s hard to detect so that means it’s quite common in production environments.
If the labs do not exist yet, the DOM XSS labs will follow soon but we need to plow through a wall of text first.
What is DOM XSS
To tackle this question we first need to answer what the DOM is. I will not go too deeply into this topic as it can be very complex and goes back to how webpages are built. You are technically not even viewing the DOM if you looking at the source code of a webpage as the DOM goes back one step and describes how a webpage is built up to javascript so that JS can then convert that DOM into objects and manipulate it. To inspect the DOM properly this means that we MUST USE THE DEVELOPER CONSOLE AND NOT INSPECT SOURCE.
DOM XSS vulnerabilities usually arise when we can control input that is being passed…
