November 2, 2026
10 Burp Suite Features Most Bug Bounty Hunters Don’t Know About
I used Burp for almost a year before finding half of these — here’s everything buried in the menus that actually finds bugs
By Monika
5 min read
Every beginner's first Burp tutorial covers the same three things: Proxy, Repeater, Intruder. Fair enough — those three alone will carry you pretty far. But Burp has an enormous amount of functionality sitting quietly in menus nobody points you toward, and a lot of it is the difference between "I tested the obvious stuff" and "I found something nobody else caught."
This isn't a beginner's guide to the basics. This is the stuff I wish someone had shown me earlier.
Match and Replace — automate the boring parts of every session
Settings → Proxy → Match and Replace lets you rewrite requests or responses automatically, on the fly, for every single request passing through the proxy. Most people never touch it. Some of the best uses:
- Automatically swap a session cookie on every outgoing request, so you can test as "Account B" across an entire browsing session without manually editing anything
- Strip a Content-Security-Policy header from every response, so you can test XSS…