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...

xss_protection_header

This plugin detects insecure usage of the "X-XSS-Protection" header as explained in the MSDN blog article "Controlling the XSS Filter". Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres alwa...

oracle

This plugin greps every page for oracle messages, versions, etc. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

csrf

This plugin finds Cross Site Request Forgeries csrf vulnerabilities. The simplest type of csrf is checked to be vulnerable, the web application must have sent a permanent cookie, and the aplicacion must have query string parameters. Plugin type Audit Options This plugin doesnt have any user...

sqli

This plugin finds SQL injections. To find this vulnerabilities the plugin sends the string dz"0 to every injection point, and searches for SQL errors in the response body. Plugin type Audit Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin...

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...

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...

code_disclosure

This plugin greps every page in order to find code disclosures. Basically it greps for ?.? and %.% using the re module and reports findings. Code disclosures are usually generated due to web server misconfigurations, or wierd web application "features". Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt...

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...

fingerprint_os

This plugin fingerprints the remote web server and tries to determine the Operating System family Windows, Unix, etc.. The fingerprinting is at this moment really trivial, because it only uses one technique: windows path separator in the URL. For example, if the input URL is...

archive_dot_org

This plugin does a search in archive.org and parses the results. It then uses the results to find new URLs in the target site. This plugin is a time machine ! Plugin type Crawl Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- maxdepth | integer | 3 | Maximum recursion...

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...

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:...

oracle_discovery

This plugin retrieves Oracle Application Server URLs and extracts information available on them. Plugin type Crawl 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 exact...

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...

feeds

This plugin greps every page and finds rss, atom, opml feeds on them. This may be usefull for determining the feed generator and with that, the framework being used. Also this will be helpful for testing feed injection. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options...