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by codesoap 875 days ago
It seems to me like "fuzzing" has a different meaning in web application penetration testing. Here, "fuzzer" is a term for tools that just generate different request using wordlists, without adding any mutations. For example, the two popular tools ffuf [1] and wfuzz [2] also call themselves fuzzers.

I see how reusing a term for a different concept is bothersome, but I feel like "fuzzer" is the term that people learning about bug bounty hunting are familiar with.

[1] https://github.com/ffuf/ffuf

[2] https://wfuzz.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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Yeah, this is generally what people mean by "web fuzzing".