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...

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...

htaccess_methods

This plugin finds .htaccess misconfigurations in the LIMIT configuration parameter. This plugin is based on a paper written by Frame and madjoker from kernelpanik.org. The paper is called : "htaccess: bilbao method exposed" The idea of the technique and the plugin is to exploit common...

self_reference

This evasion plugin adds a directory self reference. Example: Input: /bar/foo.asp Output : /bar/./foo.asp Plugin type Evasion 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...

lang

This plugin reads N pages and determines the language the site is written in. This is done by saving a list of prepositions in different languages, and counting the number of matches on every page. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more...

response_splitting

This plugin will find response splitting vulnerabilities. The detection is done by sending "w3af\r\nVulnerable: Yes" to every injection point, and reading the response headers searching for a header with name "Vulnerable" and value "Yes". Plugin type Audit Options This plugin doesnt have any user...

wsdl_finder

This plugin finds new web service descriptions and other web service related files by appending "?WSDL" to all URLs and checking the response. Plugin type Crawl Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests,...

hmap

This plugin fingerprints the remote web server and tries to determine the server type, version and patch level. It uses fingerprinting, not just the Server header returned by remote server. This plugin is a wrapper for Dustin Lees hmap. One configurable parameters exist: genFpF If genFpF is set t...

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...

private_ip

This plugin greps every page body and headers for private IP addresses. 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:...

fingerprint_waf

Try to fingerprint the Web Application Firewall that is running on the remote end. Please note that the detection of the WAF is performed by the infrastructure.afd plugin afd stands for Active Filter Detection. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options...

meta_tags

This plugin greps every page for interesting meta tags. Some interesting meta tags are the ones that contain : microsoft, visual, linux . Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres...

http_vs_https_dist

This plugin analyzes the network distance between the HTTP and HTTPS ports giving a detailed report of the traversed hosts in transit to target:port. You should have root/admin privileges in order to run this plugin succesfully. Explicitly declared ports on the entered target override those...

http_auth_detect

This plugin greps every page and finds responses that indicate that the resource requires authentication. 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 understa...

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...

find_captchas

This plugin finds any CAPTCHA images that appear on a HTML document. The crawl is performed by requesting the document two times, and comparing the image hashes, if they differ, then they may be a CAPTCHA. Plugin type Crawl Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For...

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...

ssi

This plugin finds server side include SSI vulnerabilities. Plugin type Audit 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...

lfi

This plugin will find local file include vulnerabilities. This is done by sending to all injectable parameters file paths like "../../../../../etc/passwd" and searching in the response for strings like "root:x:0:0:". Plugin type Audit Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options...

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...