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Update readme for Entanglement, bump version
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions BappManifest.bmf
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ExtensionType: 1
Name: Param Miner
RepoName: param-miner
ScreenVersion: 1.07
SerialVersion: 4
ScreenVersion: 1.20
SerialVersion: 5
MinPlatformVersion: 0
ProOnly: False
Author: James 'albinowax' Kettle, PortSwigger Web Security
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You can also launch guessing attacks on multiple selected requests at the same time - this will use a thread pool so you can safely use it on thousands of requests if you want.
Alternatively, you can enable auto-mining of all in scope traffic. Please note that this tool is designed to be highly scalable but may require tuning to avoid performance issues.

For further information, please refer to the whitepaper at https://portswigger.net/blog/practical-web-cache-poisoning
For further information, please refer to the whitepapers:

2020: https://portswigger.net/research/web-cache-entanglement

2018: https://portswigger.net/research/practical-web-cache-poisoning

The code can be found at https://github.com/portswigger/param-miner

If you'd like to rate limit your attack, use the Distribute Damage extension.

Contributions and feature requests are welcome.

**Web Cache Entanglement update**

Here's a video of the new features being used to find a fat GET cache poisoning vulnerability in a demo site using Rack::Cache

[![Param Miner demo video](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TQ42N8fqxw4/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ42N8fqxw4)

Another video targeting a real site is coming soon - I'm just waiting on the target to patch.

# Changelog
**1.20 2020-08-05**
- Major update for Web Cache Entanglement

**1.07 2018-12-06**
- Fix config window size for small screens (thanks @misoxxx)

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion src/burp/BurpExtender.java
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public class BurpExtender implements IBurpExtender, IExtensionStateListener {
private static final String name = "Param Miner";
private static final String version = "1.08";
private static final String version = "1.20";
private ThreadPoolExecutor taskEngine;
public static List<Scan> scans = new ArrayList<>();

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