hacktricks/pentesting/pentesting-web/api-pentesting.md

API Pentesting

Tricks

Play with routes

/files/..%2f..%2f + victim ID + %2f + victim filename

Owasp API Security Top 10

Read this document to learn how to search and exploit Owasp Top 10 API vulnerabilities: https://github.com/OWASP/API-Security/blob/master/2019/en/dist/owasp-api-security-top-10.pdf

API Security Checklist

{% embed url="https://github.com/shieldfy/API-Security-Checklist" %}

List of possible API endpoints

https://gist.github.com/yassineaboukir/8e12adefbd505ef704674ad6ad48743d

Tools

https://github.com/imperva/automatic-api-attack-tool: Imperva's customizable API attack tool takes an API specification as an input, generates and runs attacks that are based on it as an output.

https://github.com/flipkart-incubator/Astra: Another tool for api testing