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Testing for blind SSRF with Burp Suite

• Last updated: March 1, 2024

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Blind server-side request forgery (SSRF) is a vulnerability that allows an attacker to induce an application to send HTTP requests to a specified URL, but no response is returned to them.

To detect blind SSRF vulnerabilities with out-of-band testing, you can use Collaborator to inject a domain into a request that attempts to trigger an out-of-band interaction with your target application. Burp then monitors the Collaborator server for any out-of-band interactions with that domain.

If Collaborator detects that your application has sent a request to the inserted domain, that means it's vulnerable to SSRF.

Steps

You can follow the tutorial below by using the Blind SSRF with out-of-band detection lab from our Web Security Academy.

To test for blind SSRF with Burp Suite:

1. Go to Proxy > HTTP history. Identify a request in which you want to insert a Collaborator payload. For the lab, use a request that includes the productId parameter.
2. Right-click the request and select Send to Repeater.
3. Go to the Repeater tab.
4. Right-click where you want to insert a Collaborator payload and select Insert Collaborator payload. In the lab, replace the domain in the Referer header with a Collaborator payload.
5. Click Send.
6. Go to the Collaborator tab and click Poll now. The Collaborator tab lists any interactions your target application initiated with the Collaborator server.