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Kiterunner

Kiterunner is a contextual content discovery tool for modern web applications and APIs, excelling in route/endpoint bruteforcing.

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Kiterunner

Kiterunner

Kiterunner is a tool for content discovery, focusing on modern web applications and APIs. It goes beyond traditional file and folder discovery by bruteforcing routes/endpoints, especially in API-driven applications.

Key features:

  • API Endpoint Bruteforcing: Leverages a curated dataset of Swagger specifications to intelligently bruteforce API endpoints, considering HTTP methods, headers, parameters, and values.
  • Traditional Content Discovery: Performs fast content discovery for legacy web servers.
  • Customizable Wordlists: Supports custom wordlists and integrates with Assetnote's wordlists.
  • Depth Scanning: Handles virtual application path-based routing with configurable directory depth for wildcard detection.
  • Request Replaying: Reconstructs and replays requests from scan output for analysis and debugging.
  • Format Conversion: Converts between various file formats (txt, json, kite) for wordlists.

Use cases:

  • Discovering hidden API endpoints in web applications.
  • Identifying potential security vulnerabilities in APIs.
  • Performing comprehensive content discovery on modern web applications.
  • Automating API endpoint testing.

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