Re: [WEB SECURITY] Captcha testing

"Marco M. Morana" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.web-applications,gmane.comp.security.basics,gmane.comp.security.websecurity
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I suggest using the testing of CAPTCHA using the test case of the OWASP testing guide (AT 08)

Regards
Marco

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On Oct 2, 2010, at 1:21 AM, rajat swarup <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Kiran Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I required to test captcha feature. Is there any standards to test this
>> feature? please suggest me any materials & tools.
>> 
> Typically CAPTCHAs are implemented mostly as an afterthought.  One of
> the things that I've seen is simply submitting the form by removing
> the CAPTCHA parameters and the "captcha required flag" altogether and
> the forms still seem to work.  It's a very basic test but seems to
> work a lot.
> 
> Also, sometimes replay might work.  So as long as you have one right
> CAPTCHA you can replay the form multiple times with that same CAPTCHA
> and things do work.
> 
> Hope it helps!
> -- 
> Rajat Swarup
> www.rajatswarup.com
> 
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