Achim,

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Achim Hoffmann <a...@securenet.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Kevin, nice idea.
>
> I'll try to improve that and write a plugin to detect if a
> webapp switches from URL rewriting to cookies or vice versa.
> The idea is:
>  send url with session parameter
>  check if webapp send Set-Cookie with that value
>  If Set-Cookie comes back with preset value, we also have
>  a potential session fixation

I don't know how you understood this from Kevin's email, but great for
us that you did it, because it would be great to have this feature.

> Andres, will that plugin be in plugin/discovery?

Hmmm, it is an audit plugin, because you would be finding a
vulnerability (session fixation) and not a new resource. Do you agree?

Cheers,

> Cheers
> Achim
>
> On Wed, 20 May 2009, Muffys Wump wrote:
>
> !! Hi List,
> !!
> !! Some time ago we've implemented a feature into the webSpider which allows 
> you to set
> !! URL parameters to all discovered pages. e.g.
> !! http://foo.bar/page.jsp;jsessionid=xxxxx?id=5.
> !! My motivation was to set a JSESSIONID of a previously authenticated 
> session in order
> !! to use w3af as a nightly running automated security testing framework.
> !! I was thinking that this should also be available for web applications 
> which use
> !! cookies instead of URL parameters to store session information.
> !!
> !! The webSpider would change the cookie string to the user configured 
> parameter for
> !! every request:
> !! >> discovery config webSpider
> !! >> set cookieString 'PHPSESSIONID=yyyyyyy'
> !!
> !! I've found a similar request in the users list: "How to teach w3af to log 
> in prior to
> !! spidering and testing".
> !! The proxy plugin wouldn't work because it needs to done without user 
> interaction in my
> !! case.
> !!
> !! What do you think about that? I would be happy to implement this.
> !!
> !! Cheers,
> !! Kevin
> !!
> !! 
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