Author: Preetkaran20

Overview

File upload is becoming a more and more essential part of any application, where the user is able to upload their photo, their CV, or a video showcasing a project they are working on. The application should be able to fend off bogus and malicious files in a way to keep the application and the users safe. Generally file upload functionality is quite complex to automate and has huge attack surface hence there is a need to automate the process and also secure it. So the FileUpload add-on has scan rule which is used to find vulnerabilities in file upload functionality and this blog explains on how to use it.

With the popularity of JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) there comes the need to secure their use so that they are not misused because of bad configuration, older libraries, or buggy implementations. So the JWT Support add-on is used to find such vulnerabilities and this blog explains on how to use it.