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...Amid growing concerns about web-borne attacks against clients, including mobile clients, BeEF allows the professional penetration tester to assess the actual security posture of a target environment by using client-side attack vectors. Unlike other security frameworks, BeEF looks past the hardened network perimeter and client system, and examines exploitability within the context of the one open door: the web browser. BeEF will hook one or more web browsers and use them as beachheads for launching directed command modules and further attacks against the system from within the browser context.

As an open source penetration testing tool, IPTC-Attacker allows to create an image with IPTC metadata containing testing vectors for Cross-Site Scripting attacks. Each checkbox can be used to include a huge collection of payloads into the selected tags (HTML5sec, XSS Cheat Sheet). If a checkbox will be not selected, the string aaa'bbb"ccc<ddd is automatically included into the unchecked IPTC tag. Therefore, testing for XSS vulnerabilities via IPTC metadata is possible by looking into the source code of the attacked Web application; strictly speaking for aaa'bbb"ccc<ddd or alternatively by verifying if, for example, alert-windows appear due to the XSS vector collection.