xssed_dot_com

This plugin searches the xssed.com database and parses the result. The information stored in that database is useful to know about previous XSS vulnerabilities in the target website. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more informatio...

php_eggs

This plugin tries to find the documented easter eggs that exist in PHP and identify the remote PHP version using the easter egg content. The easter eggs that this plugin verifies are: PHP Credits, Logo, Zend Logo, PHP Logo 2: http://php.net/?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000...

frontpage_version

This plugin searches for the FrontPage Server Info file and if it finds it will try to determine the version of the Frontpage Server Extensions. The file is located inside the web server webroot. For example: http://localhost/vtiinf.html Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have...

finger_pks

This plugin finds mail addresses in PGP PKS servers. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source code to understand exactly whats under the hood: Plugin...

domain_dot

This plugin finds misconfigurations in the virtual host settings by sending a specially crafted request with a trailing dot in the domain name. For example, if the input for this plugin is http://host.tld/ , the plugin will perform a request to http://host.tld./ . In some misconfigurations, the...

server_status

This plugin fetches the server-status file used by Apache, and parses it. After parsing, new URLs are found, and in some cases, the plugin can deduce the existance of other domains hosted on the same server. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options...

find_jboss

This plugin identifies JBoss installation directories and possible security vulnerabilities. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source code to understand...

finger_google

This plugin finds mail addresses in google. Two configurable parameters exist: resultlimit fastsearch If fastsearch is set to False, this plugin searches google for : "@domain.com", requests all search results and parses them in order to find new mail addresses. If the fastsearch configuration...

shared_hosting

This plugin tries to find out if the web application under test is stored in a shared hosting. The procedure is pretty simple, using bing search engine, the plugin searches for "ip:1.2.3.4" where 1.2.3.4 is the IP address of the webserver. One configurable option exists: resultlimit Fetch the fir...

finger_bing

This plugin finds mail addresses in Bing search engine. One configurable parameter exist: resultlimit This plugin searches Bing for : "@domain.com", requests all search results and parses them in order to find new mail addresses. Plugin type Infrastructure Options Name | Type | Default Value |...

dns_wildcard

This plugin compares the contents of www.site.com and site.com and tries to verify if the target site has a DNS wildcard configuration or not. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated...

detect_transparent_proxy

This plugin tries to detect transparent proxies. The procedure for detecting transparent proxies is simple, I try to connect to a series of IP addresses, to the port 80, if all of them return an opened socket, then its the proxy server responding. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin...

zone_h

This plugin searches the zone-h.org defacement database and parses the result. The information stored in that database is useful to know about previous defacements to the target website. In some cases, the defacement site provides information about the exploited vulnerability, which may be still...

halberd

This plugin tries to find if an HTTP Load balancer is present. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source code to understand exactly whats under the hood:...

dav

This plugin finds WebDAV configuration errors. These errors are generally server configuration errors rather than a web application errors. To check for vulnerabilities of this kind, the plugin will try to PUT a file on a directory that has WebDAV enabled, if the file is uploaded successfully, th...

detect_reverse_proxy

This plugin tries to determine if the remote end has a reverse proxy installed. The procedure used to detect reverse proxies is to send a request to the remote server and analyze the response headers, if a Via header is found, chances are that the remote site has a reverse proxy. Plugin type...

Data Sharing, Cooperation Key to Critical Infrastructure Security

WASHINGTON–The topic of critical infrastructure security may be the prettiest girl at the dance right now for both politicians and technology companies, but the problem of attackers going after these targets is one that security people have been dealing with for some time. But that doesn’t mean...

Politics, Uncertainty Slowing Down U.S. Response to Cyber Threats

WASHINGTON–The shift in the last few years to cyberespionage and online attacks against the nation’s critical infrastructure have left the United States government lagging behind, and “a day late and a dollar short”, the former director of the National Security Agency said. The ongoing campaigns...

CVE-2013-1247

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the wireless configuration module in Cisco Prime Infrastructure allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an SSID that is not properly handled during display of the XML windowing table, aka Bug ID CSCuf04356...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the wireless configuration module in Cisco Prime Infrastructure allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an SSID that is not properly handled during display of the XML windowing table, aka Bug ID CSCuf04356...