HackBar - A Browser Extension for Penetration Testing

HackBar is a browser extension for Chrome that serves as a valuable tool for penetration testing. Designed to enhance the capabilities of developers and security professionals, HackBar offers a range of features to assist in testing the security of web applications.

With HackBar, users can easily load requests from a tab or a cURL command, making it convenient to test different scenarios. The extension supports various HTTP methods, including GET and POST with different content types such as application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data, and application/json. Users can also choose between basic and raw request editing modes and even specify custom payloads.

One notable feature of HackBar is its auto test functionality, which includes a list of common paths to test for vulnerabilities. Additionally, the extension provides SQL injection (SQLi) capabilities, allowing users to dump database names, tables, columns, and execute select statements. The XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) feature offers payloads for Vue.js and Angular.js, as well as encoding and decoding options.

Other useful features of HackBar include LFI (Local File Inclusion) capabilities using PHP wrappers, SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery) with AWS IAM role name support, SSTI (Server-Side Template Injection) with Jinja2 and Java options, and a range of reverse shell cheatsheets for Python, bash, nc, and PHP.

HackBar also offers encoding options for URL, Base64, hexadecimal, Unicode, and ASCII formats, as well as hashing functions such as MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, and SHA512.

Overall, HackBar is a powerful browser extension that provides a wide range of tools and functionalities for penetration testing. Its user-friendly interface and extensive features make it a valuable asset for developers and security professionals.

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App specs

  • License

    Free

  • Version

    1.2.8

  • Latest update

  • Platform

    chrome

  • Downloads

    33

  • Developer

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