google_spider

This plugin finds new URLs using google. It will search for "site:domain.com" and do GET requests all the URLs found in the result. One configurable parameter exists: resultlimit Plugin type Crawl Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- resultlimit | integer |...

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,...

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 ---|---|---|---|---...

html_comments

This plugin greps every page for HTML comments, special comments like the ones containing the words "password" or "user" are specially reported. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests,...

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...

strange_headers

This plugin greps all headers for non-common headers. This could be useful to identify special modules and features added to the server. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...