xml_file

This plugin writes the framework messages to an XML report file. One configurable parameter exists: outputfile Plugin type Output Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- outputfile | outputfile | report.xml | File name where this plugin will write to | No...

web_spider

This plugin is a classic web spider, it will request a URL and extract all links and forms from the response. Three configurable parameter exist: onlyforward ignoreRegex followRegex IgnoreRegex and followRegex are commonly used to configure the webspider to spider all URLs except the "logout" or...

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...

ajax

This plugin greps every page for traces of Ajax code. 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...

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...

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...

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...

find_vhosts

This plugin uses the HTTP Host header to find new virtual hosts. For example, if the intranet page is hosted in the same server that the public page, and the web server is misconfigured, this plugin will discover that virtual host. Please note that this plugin doesnt use any DNS technique to find...

generic

This plugin finds all kind of bugs without using a fixed database of errors. This is a new kind of methodology that solves the main problem of most web application security scanners. Plugin type Audit Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- diffratio | float |...

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...

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...

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...

preg_replace

This plugin will find pregreplace vulnerabilities. This PHP function is vulnerable when the user can control the regular expression or the content of the string being analyzed and the regular expression has the e modifier. Right now this plugin will only find pregreplace vulnerabilities when PHP ...

reversed_slashes

This evasion plugin changes the slashes from / to \ . 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...

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...

frontpage

This plugin audits the frontpage extension configuration by trying to upload a file to the remote server using the author.dll script provided by FrontPage. Plugin type Audit Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- stopOnFirst | boolean | True | Stop on the fir...

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...

wordpress_fingerprint

This plugin finds the version of a WordPress installation by fingerprinting it. It first checks whether or not the version is in the index header and then it checks for the "real version" through the existance of files that are only present in specific versions. Plugin type Crawl Options This...

xpath

This plugin finds XPATH injections. To find this vulnerabilities the plugin sends the string "dz0" to every injection point, and searches the response for XPATH errors. Plugin type Audit Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and...

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...

cross_domain_js

Find script tags with src attributes that point to a different domain. It is important to notice that websites that depend on external javascript sources are delegating part of their security to those entities, so it is imperative to be aware of such code. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin...

afd

This plugin sends custom requests to the remote web server in order to verify if the remote network is protected by an IPS or WAF. afd plugin detects both TCP-Connection-reset and HTTP level filters, the first one usually implemented by IPS devices is easy to verify: if afd requests the custom pa...

global_redirect

This plugin finds global redirection vulnerabilities. This kind of bugs are used for phishing and other identity theft attacks. A common example of a global redirection would be a script that takes a "url" parameter and when requesting this page, a HTTP 302 message with the location header to the...

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:...

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...

ria_enumerator

This plugin searches for various Rich Internet Application files. It currently searches for: Google gears manifests These files are used to determine which files are locally cached by google gears. They do not get cleared when the browser cache is cleared and may contain sensitive information. Fl...

rfi

This plugin finds remote file inclusion vulnerabilities. Three configurable parameters exist: listenaddress listenport usew3afsite There are two ways of running this plugin, the most common one is to use w3afs site w3af.sf.net as the URL to include. This is convenient and requires zero...

wordpress_enumerate_users

This plugin finds usernames in WordPress installations. The authors archive page is tried using "?author=ID" query and incrementing the ID for each request until 404. If the response is a redirect, the blog is affected by TALSOFT-2011-0526 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/May/493 advisory...

path_disclosure

This plugin greps every page for path disclosure vulnerabilities like: C:\www\files\… /var/www/htdocs/… The results are saved to the KB, and used by all the plugins that need to know the location of a file inside the remote web server. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user...

objects

This plugin greps every page for applets and other types of objects. 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: Plug...

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...

wsdl_greper

This plugin greps every page for WSDL definitions. Not all wsdls are found appending "?WSDL" to the url like crawl.wsdlfinder plugin does, this grep plugin will find some wsdls that arent found by the crawl plugin. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Sour...

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...

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...

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...

favicon_identification

This plugin identifies software version using favicon.ico file. It checks MD5 of favicon against the MD5 database of favicons. See also: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASPFaviconDatabaseProject http://kost.com.hr/favicon.php Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have an...

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...

strange_parameters

This plugin greps all responses and tries to identify URIs with strange parameters, some examples of strange parameters are: http://a/?b=methoda,c http://a/?c=x|y|z|d Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and th...

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...

buffer_overflow

This plugin finds buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Users have to know that detecting a buffer overflow vulnerability will be only possible if the server is configured to return errors, and the application is developed in cgi-c or some other language that allows the programmer to do their own memo...

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...

strange_http_codes

Analyze HTTP response codes sent by the remote web application and report uncommon findings. 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...

form_auth

This plugin bruteforces form authentication logins. Eleven configurable parameters exist: usersFile stopOnFirst passwdFile passEqUser useLeetPasswd useMailUsers useSvnUsers useMails useProfiling profilingNumber comboFile comboSeparator This plugin will take users from the file pointed by...

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...

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...

file_upload

This plugin will try to expoit insecure file upload forms. One configurable parameter exists: extensions The extensions parameter is a comma separated list of extensions that this plugin will try to upload. Many web applications verify the extension of the file being uploaded, if special extensio...

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,...

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...

click_jacking

This plugin greps every page for X-Frame-Options header and so for possible ClickJacking attack against URL. Additional information: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Clickjacking Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this...

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...