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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...
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...
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...
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 |...
directory_indexing
This plugin greps every response directory indexing problems. 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 sour...
spider_man
This plugin is a local proxy that can be used to give the framework knowledge about the web application when it has a lot of client side code like Flash or Java applets. Whenever a w3af needs to test an application with flash or javascript, the user should enable this plugin and use a web browser...
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...
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,...
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 ...
web_diff
This plugin tries to do a diff of two directories, a local and a remote one. The idea is to mimic the functionality implemented by the linux command "diff" when invoked with two directories. Four configurable parameter exist: localdir remoteurlpath bannedext content This plugin will read the file...
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...
analyze_cookies
This plugin greps every response for session cookies that the web application sends to the client, and analyzes them in order to identify potential vulnerabilities, the remote web application framework and other interesting information. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user...
motw
This plugin will specify whether the page is compliant against the MOTW standard. The standard is explained in: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537628.aspx This plugin tests if the length of the URL specified by "XYZW" is lower, equal or greater than the length of the URL; and also...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
text_file
This plugin writes the framework messages to a text file. Four configurable parameters exist: outputfile httpoutputfile verbose Plugin type Output Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- verbose | boolean | True | Enable if verbose output is needed | No detail...
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...
get_emails
This plugin greps every page for emails, these can be used in other places, like bruteforce plugins, and are of great value when doing a complete information security assessment. Plugin type Grep Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- onlytargetdomain | boole...
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...
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...
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...
email_report
This plugin sends short report only vulnerabilities by email to specified addresses. There are some configurable parameters: smtpServer smtpPort toAddrs fromAddr Plugin type Output Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- smtpServer | string | localhost | SMTP...
urllist_txt
This plugin searches for the urllist.txt file, and parses it. The urllist.txt file is/was used by Yahoos search engine. 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...
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...
phishing_vector
This plugins finds phishing vectors in web applications, for example, a bug of this type is found if I request the URL "http://site.tld/asd.asp?info=http://attacker.tld" and in the response HTML the web application sends: … iframe src="http://attacker.tld" …. Plugin type Audit Options This plugin...
finger_google
This plugin finds mail addresses in google. Two configurable parameters exist: resultlimit fastsearch If fastsearch is set to False, this plugin searches google for : "@domain.com", requests all search results and parses them in order to find new mail addresses. If the fastsearch configuration...
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...
dom_xss
This plugin greps every page for traces of DOM XSS. An interesting paper about DOM XSS can be found here: http://www.webappsec.org/projects/articles/071105.shtml Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the...
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...
user_defined_regex
This plugin greps every response for a user defined regex. You can specify a single regex or an entire file of regexes each line one regex, if both are specified, the singleregex will be added to the list of regular expressions extracted from the file. A list of example regular expressions can be...
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...
format_string
This plugin finds format string bugs. Users have to know that detecting a format string 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 this kind of mistakes. Plugin...
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...
blank_body
This plugin finds HTTP responses with a blank body, these responses may indicate errors or misconfigurations in the web application or the web server. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated...
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...
zone_h
This plugin searches the zone-h.org defacement database and parses the result. The information stored in that database is useful to know about previous defacements to the target website. In some cases, the defacement site provides information about the exploited vulnerability, which may be still...
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...
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...
allowed_methods
This plugin finds which HTTP methods are enabled for a URI. Two configurable parameters exist: execOneTime reportDavOnly If "execOneTime" is set to True, then only the methods in the webroot are enumerated. If "reportDavOnly" is set to True, this plugin will only report the enabled method list if...
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...
xss
This plugin finds Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerabilities. One configurable parameters exists: persistentxss To find XSS bugs the plugin will send a set of javascript strings to every parameter, and search for that input in the response. The "persistentxss" parameter makes the plugin store all...
eval
This plugin finds eval input injection vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are found in web applications, when the developer passes user controled data to the eval function. To check for vulnerabilities of this kind, the plugin sends an echo function with two randomized strings as a parameters...
halberd
This plugin tries to find if an HTTP Load balancer is present. 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:...
wordnet
This plugin finds new URLs using wn. An example is the best way to explain what this plugin does, lets suppose that the input for this plugin is: http://a/index.asp?color=blue The plugin will search the wordnet database for words that are related with "blue", and return for example: "black" and...
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...
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...
detect_transparent_proxy
This plugin tries to detect transparent proxies. The procedure for detecting transparent proxies is simple, I try to connect to a series of IP addresses, to the port 80, if all of them return an opened socket, then its the proxy server responding. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin...