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...

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_bing

This plugin finds mail addresses in Bing search engine. One configurable parameter exist: resultlimit This plugin searches Bing for : "@domain.com", requests all search results and parses them in order to find new mail addresses. Plugin type Infrastructure Options Name | Type | Default Value |...

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...

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...

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...

rnd_param

This evasion plugin adds a random parameter. Example: Input: /bar/foo.asp Output : /bar/foo.asp?alsfkj=f09 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...

user_dir

This plugin will try to find user home directories based on the knowledge gained by other plugins, and an internal knowledge base. For example, if the target URL is: http://test/ And other plugins found this valid email accounts: email protected email protected This plugin will request:...

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...

full_width_encode

This evasion plugin does full width encoding as described here: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/739224 Example: Input: /bar/foo.asp Output : /b%uFF61r/%uFF66oo.asp Plugin type Evasion Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the...

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...

detect_reverse_proxy

This plugin tries to determine if the remote end has a reverse proxy installed. The procedure used to detect reverse proxies is to send a request to the remote server and analyze the response headers, if a Via header is found, chances are that the remote site has a reverse proxy. Plugin type...

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...

sed

This plugin is a stream editor for web requests and responses. Three configurable parameters exist: priority expressions fixContentLen Stream edition expressions are strings that tell the sed plugin what to change. Sed plugin uses regular expressions, some examples: qh/User/NotLuser/ This will ma...

redos

This plugin finds ReDoS regular expression DoS vulnerabilities as explained here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReDoS 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...

html_file

This plugin writes the framework messages to an HTML report file. Two configurable parameters exist: outputfile verbose If you want to write every HTTP request/response to a text file, you should use the textfile plugin. Plugin type Output Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help...

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...

backspace_between_dots

This evasion plugin inserts an A and a backspace control character between dots which cancel each other when they are processed and some filters that match ../ are bypassed. Example: Input: ../../etc/passwd Output: .%41%08./.%41%08./etc/passwd Plugin type Evasion Options This plugin doesnt have a...

ssn

This plugins scans every response page to find the strings that are likely to be the US social security numbers. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

export_requests

This plugin exports all discovered HTTP requests URL, Method, Params to the given file CSV which can then be imported in another scan by using the crawl.importresults. One configurable parameter exists: outputfile Plugin type Output Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

rnd_case

This evasion plugin changes the case of random letters. 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...

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...

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...

dns_wildcard

This plugin compares the contents of www.site.com and site.com and tries to verify if the target site has a DNS wildcard configuration or not. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated...

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...

digit_sum

This plugin tries to find new URLs by changing the numbers that are present on it. Two configurable parameters exist: fuzzImages maxDigitSections An example will clarify what this plugin does, lets suppose that the input for this plugin is: http://host.tld/index1.asp This plugin will request:...

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...

sitemap_xml

This plugin searches for the sitemap.xml file, and parses it. The sitemap.xml file is used by the site administrator to give the Google crawler more information about the site. By parsing this file, the plugin finds new URLs and other useful information. Plugin type Crawl Options This plugin does...