svn_users

This plugin greps every page for users of the versioning system. Sometimes the HTML pages are versioned using CVS or SVN, if the header of the versioning system is saved as a comment in this page, the user that edited the page will be saved on that header and will be added to the knowledge base...

url_session

This plugin finds URLs which contain a parameter that stores the session ID. This configuration leaves the session id exposed in browser and server logs, and is also leaked through the HTTP referrer header. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For...

full_width_encode

This evasion plugin does full width encoding as described here: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/739224 Example: Input: /bar/foo.asp Output : /b%uFF61r/%uFF66oo.asp Plugin type Evasion Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the...

hash_analysis

This plugin identifies hashes in HTTP responses. Plugin type Grep 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 source code...

ssl_certificate

This plugin audits SSL certificate parameters. One configurable parameter exists: minExpireDays CA PEM file path Note: Its only usefull when testing HTTPS sites. Plugin type Audit Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- minExpireDays | integer | 30 | Set minim...

ssn

This plugins scans every response page to find the strings that are likely to be the US social security numbers. Plugin type Grep 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...

generic

This authentication plugin can login to web application with generic authentication schema. Seven configurable parameters exist: username password usernamefield passwordfield authurl checkurl checkstring Plugin type Auth Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|---...

error_500

This plugin greps every page for error 500 pages that havent been caught by other plugins. By enabling this, you are enabling a "safety net" that will catch all interesting HTTP responses which might lead to a bug or vulnerability. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user...

content_negotiation

This plugin uses HTTP content negotiation to find new resources. The plugin has three distinctive phases: Identify if the web server has content negotiation enabled. For every resource found by any other plugin, perform a request to find new related resources. For example, if another plugin finds...

shift_out_in_between_dots

This evasion plugin insert between dots shift-in and shift-out control characters which are cancelled each other when they are below so some ".." filters are bypassed Example: Input: ../../etc/passwd Output: .%0E%0F./.%0E%0F./etc/passwd Plugin type Evasion Options This plugin doesnt have any user...

file_upload

This plugin greps every page for forms with file upload capabilities. Plugin type Grep 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:...

os_commanding

This plugin will find OS commanding vulnerabilities. The detection is performed using two different techniques: Time delays Writing a known file to the HTML output With time delays, the plugin sends specially crafted requests that, if the vulnerability is present, will delay the response for 5...

server_header

This plugin GETs the server header and saves the result to the knowledge base. Nothing strange, just do a GET request to the url and save the server headers to the kb. A smarter way to check the server type is with the hmap plugin. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any us...

credit_cards

This plugins scans every response page to find the strings that are likely to be credit card numbers. It can be tested against the following URL: https://www.paypal.com/enUS/vhelp/paypalmanagerhelp/creditcardnumbers.htm Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options...

pykto

This plugin is a nikto port to python. It uses the scandatabase file from nikto to search for new and vulnerable URLs. The following configurable parameters exist: cgidirs admindirs nukedirs extradbfile mutatetests This plugin reads every line in the scandatabase and extradbfile and based on the...

csv_file

This plugin exports all identified vulnerabilities and informations to the given CSV file. One configurable parameter exists: outputfile Plugin type Output Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- outputfile | outputfile | output-w3af.csv | The name of the outp...

form_autocomplete

This plugin greps every page for autocomplete-able forms containing password-type inputs. Plugin type Grep 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...

blind_sqli

This plugin finds blind SQL injections using two techniques: time delays and true/false response comparison. Only one configurable parameters exists: eqlimit Plugin type Audit Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- eqlimit | float | 0.9 | String equal ratio 0...

console

This plugin writes the framework messages to the console. One configurable parameter exists: verbose Plugin type Output Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- verbose | boolean | False | Enables verbose output for the console | No detailed help available Sour...

export_requests

This plugin exports all discovered HTTP requests URL, Method, Params to the given file CSV which can then be imported in another scan by using the crawl.importresults. One configurable parameter exists: outputfile Plugin type Output Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help...