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phpinfo
This plugin searches for the PHP Info file in all the directories and subdirectories that are sent as input and if it finds it will try to determine the version of the PHP. The PHP Info file holds information about the PHP and the system version, environment, modules, extensions, compilation...
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...
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...
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...
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...
dav
This plugin finds WebDAV configuration errors. These errors are generally server configuration errors rather than a web application errors. To check for vulnerabilities of this kind, the plugin will try to PUT a file on a directory that has WebDAV enabled, if the file is uploaded successfully, th...
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...
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...
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...
ldapi
This plugin will find LDAP injections by sending a specially crafted string to every parameter and analyzing the response for LDAP errors. Plugin type Audit Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres...
ghdb
This plugin finds possible vulnerabilities using google. One configurable parameter exist: resultlimit Using the google hack database released by Exploit-DB.com, this plugin searches Google for possible vulnerabilities in the target domain. Special thanks go to the guys at...
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...
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...
error_pages
This plugin scans every page for error pages, and if possible extracts the web server or programming framework information. 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 sourc...
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...
find_dvcs
This plugin search git, hg, bzr, svn or cvs repositories and checks for files containing. For example, if the input is: http://host.tld/w3af/index.php The plugin will perform requests to: http://host.tld/w3af/.git/index http://host.tld/w3af/.gitignore http://host.tld/w3af/.hg/store/fncache...
basic_auth
This plugin bruteforces basic authentication logins. Nine configurable parameters exist: usersFile stopOnFirst passwdFile passEqUser useLeetPasswd useSvnUsers useEmails useProfiling profilingNumber This plugin will take users from the file pointed by "usersFile", mail users found on the site and...
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...
xst
This plugin finds the Cross Site Tracing XST vulnerability. No configurable paramaters are available. The TRACE method echos back requests sent to it. This plugin sends a TRACE request to the server and if the request is echoed back then XST is confirmed. Plugin type Audit Options This plugin...
un_ssl
This plugin verifies that URLs that are available using HTTPS arent available over an insecure HTTP protocol. To detect this, the plugin simply requests "https://abc/a.asp" and "http://abc.asp" and if both are equal, a vulnerability is found. Plugin type Audit Options This plugin doesnt have any...
detailed
This authentication plugin can login to web application with more detailed and complex authentication schemas where the generic plugin does not work. Nine configurable parameters exist: username password usernamefield passwordfield dataformat authurl method checkurl checkstring Plugin type Auth...
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...
strange_reason
Analyze HTTP response reason messages 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...
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...
dot_net_event_validation
ASP.NET implements a method to verify that every postback comes from the corresponding control, which is called EventValidation. In some cases the developers disable this kind of verifications by adding EnableEventValidation="false" to the .aspx file header, or in the web.config or system.config...
bing_spider
This plugin finds new URLs in Bing search engine. One configurable parameters exist: resultlimit This plugin searches Bing for : "site:domain.com", requests all search results and parses them in order to find new URLs. Plugin type Crawl Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
url_fuzzer
This plugin will try to find new URLs based on the input. If the input is for example: http://a/a.html The plugin will request: http://a/a.html.tgz http://a/a.tgz http://a/a.zip … etc If the response is different from the 404 page whatever it may be, automatic detection is performed, then we have...
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...
console
This plugin writes the framework messages to the console. One configurable parameter exists: verbose Plugin type Output Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- verbose | boolean | False | Enables verbose output for the console | No detailed help available Sour...
phishtank
This plugin searches the domain being tested in the phishtank database. If your site is in this database the chances are that you were hacked and your server is now being used in phishing attacks. Plugin type Crawl Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more...
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...
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 |...
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...
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...
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...
dir_bruter
This plugin finds directories on a web server by brute-forcing their names using a wordlist. Given the large amount of time that this plugin can consume, by default, it will only try to identify directories in the web root "/", ignoring the path that is sent as its input. Two configurable...
frontpage_version
This plugin searches for the FrontPage Server Info file and if it finds it will try to determine the version of the Frontpage Server Extensions. The file is located inside the web server webroot. For example: http://localhost/vtiinf.html Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have...
password_profiling
This plugin creates a list of possible passwords by reading responses and counting the most common words. 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...
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...
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...
cors_origin
Inspect if application check that the value of the "Origin" HTTP header is consistent with the value of the remote IP address/Host of the sender of the incoming HTTP request. Configurable parameters are: originheadervalue Note : This plugin is useful to test "Cross Origin Resource Sharing CORS"...
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...
domain_dot
This plugin finds misconfigurations in the virtual host settings by sending a specially crafted request with a trailing dot in the domain name. For example, if the input for this plugin is http://host.tld/ , the plugin will perform a request to http://host.tld./ . In some misconfigurations, the...
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 |...