Tuesday 16 July 2013

HOWTO: Web Application Scanning

So you think your web app is vulnerable. How do you find out more using automated tools? Let's start with the freely available ones.

1) Nikto.

On FreeBSD,

cd /usr/ports/security/nikto && make install clean && rehash
nikto -update
nikto -host http://yourserver

You're looking for 0 errors.


2) Netsparker Community Edition for Windows

Download it here. Unlike some other free scanners, this can detect SQL Injections as well as XSS attacks. Highly useful.

3) N-Stalker Free Edition.

Download it here. Has limitation of up to 500 pages max, and reduced number of rules compared to paid ed.


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