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Arjun can find query parameters for URL endpoints. If you don't get what that means, it's okay, read along.
Web applications use parameters (or queries) to accept user input, take the following example into consideration
http://api.example.com/v1/userinfo?id=751634589
This URL seems to load user information for a specific user id, but what if there exists a parameter named admin
which when set to True
makes the endpoint provide more information about the user?
This is what Arjun does, it finds valid HTTP parameters with a huge default dictionary of 25,890 parameter names.
The best part? It takes less than 10 seconds to go through this huge list while making just 50-60 requests to the target. Here's how.
GET/POST/POST-JSON/POST-XML
requestsYou can install arjun
with pip as following:
pip3 install arjun
or, by downloading this repository and running
python3 setup.py install
A detailed usage guide is available on Usage section of the Wiki.
Direct links to some basic options are given below:
Optionally, you can use the --help
argument to explore Arjun on your own.
The parameter names wordlist is created by extracting top parameter names from CommonCrawl dataset and merging best words from SecLists and param-miner wordlists into that.
db/special.json
wordlist is taken from data-payloads.
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HTTP parameter discovery suite
We found that arjun demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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