# Shadow Repeater:AI-enhanced manual testing

DevFeed: [Shadow Repeater:AI-enhanced manual testing](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/shadow-repeater-ai-enhanced-manual-testing-7697.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://portswigger.net/research/shadow-repeater-ai-enhanced-manual-testing>)

Author: Gareth Heyes

Published: 2025-02-20T13:20:19Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [PortSwigger Research](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/portswigger-research.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vulnerabilities.md>), [Extension](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/extension.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [attacks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/attacks.md>), [automatic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/automatic.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [extension](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/extension.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/request.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [vulnerabilities](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vulnerabilities.md>), [xss](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/xss.md>)

## AI overview

Shadow Repeater is a Burp Repeater extension that enhances manual security testing with AI-powered automatic variation testing. It analyzes changed parameters and payloads, generates variants through an AI model, tests them against the target, and uses response diffing to identify potentially interesting behavior and vulnerabilities.

## Source excerpt

Have you ever wondered how many vulnerabilities you've missed by a hair's breadth, due to a single flawed choice? We've just released Shadow Repeater, which enhances your manual testing with AI-powere