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withUpdatedParameters(List) function updates only the first parameter

JK | Last updated: Jun 26, 2024 09:10AM UTC

Hi, I'm struggling with modification of the request payload in a class extending ExtensionProvidedHttpRequestEditor. In the getRequest() function, I'm packing the content of my custom editor and want to update request parameters with that. My code looks like: --- Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(REGEX); String[] bodyParams = pattern.split(this.requestEditor.getContents().toString()); java.util.ArrayList<HttpParameter> newBodyParams = new ArrayList<HttpParameter>(); for (String bodyParam : bodyParams) { //... some custom encoding etc newBodyParams.add(HttpParameter.parameter(paramName, paramValueEncoded, HttpParameterType.BODY)); } // checking if everything was updated correctly - this output everything as expected /*for (HttpParameter bodyParam: newBodyParams) { String paramName = bodyParam.name(); String paramValue = bodyParam.value(); this.api.logging().raiseDebugEvent("Item of updated parameters list: " + paramName + ", paramValue: " + paramValue); }*/ // for some reason this updates only the first parameter (regardless of which one it is) request = this.originalRequestResponse.request().withUpdatedParameters(newBodyParams); --- Even though the newBodyParams list contains correct (updated) values of my parameters, only the first one parameter is update in the created request object. It isn't tied to a parameter name. A change of parameter order changes also the parameter which gets updated. Any advise is welcome.

Hannah, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Jun 27, 2024 09:07AM UTC

Hi

Are all parameters that you are updating present in the request?

I've tested this out with a POC extension, but all matching parameters are updated.
import burp.api.montoya.BurpExtension;
import burp.api.montoya.MontoyaApi;
import burp.api.montoya.http.message.params.HttpParameter;
import burp.api.montoya.http.message.requests.HttpRequest;
import burp.api.montoya.ui.contextmenu.ContextMenuEvent;
import burp.api.montoya.ui.contextmenu.ContextMenuItemsProvider;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import static burp.api.montoya.http.message.params.HttpParameter.parameter;
import static burp.api.montoya.http.message.params.HttpParameterType.BODY;

@SuppressWarnings("unused")
public class Extension implements BurpExtension
{
    @Override
    public void initialize(MontoyaApi montoyaApi)
    {
        List<HttpParameter> newBodyParams = new ArrayList<>();

        newBodyParams.add(parameter("a", "b", BODY));
        newBodyParams.add(parameter("b","c",BODY));
        newBodyParams.add(parameter("c","d",BODY));

        montoyaApi.userInterface().registerContextMenuItemsProvider(new ContextMenuItemsProvider()
        {
            @Override
            public List<Component> provideMenuItems(ContextMenuEvent event)
            {
                JMenuItem menuItem = new JMenuItem("Replace parameters and output");
                menuItem.addActionListener(l -> {
                    HttpRequest request = event.messageEditorRequestResponse().isPresent()
                            ? event.messageEditorRequestResponse().get().requestResponse().request()
                            : event.selectedRequestResponses().get(0).request();

                    HttpRequest newRequest = request.withUpdatedParameters(newBodyParams);

                    montoyaApi.logging().logToOutput(newRequest.toString());
                });

                return List.of(menuItem);
            }
        });
    }
}

Example request:
GET / HTTP/2
Host: portswigger-labs.net
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.6478.127 Safari/537.36
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Content-Length: 11

a=1&b=2&c=3

JK | Last updated: Jul 01, 2024 08:35AM UTC

Thank you, your answer was helpful. First, I validated it worked on your example. Then I focused on your hint about names of parameters. I found that parsed parameters contained prepended "\n" which caused the reported issue. It works now :)

Hannah, PortSwigger Agent | Last updated: Jul 01, 2024 09:28AM UTC

Glad to hear you got it sorted! If there's anything else we can help with, then please let us know.

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