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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

import_results

This plugin serves as an entry point for the results of other tools that identify URLs. The plugin reads from different input files and directories and creates the fuzzable requests which are needed by the audit plugins. Two configurable parameter exist: inputcsv inputburp One or more of these ne...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

robots_txt

This plugin searches for the robots.txt file, and parses it. This file is used to as an ACL that defines what URLs a search engine can access. By parsing this file, you can get more information about the target web application. Plugin type Crawl Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

find_backdoors

This plugin searches for web shells in the directories that are sent as input. For example, if the input is: http://host.tld/w3af/f00b4r.php The plugin will perform these requests: http://host.tld/w3af/c99.php http://host.tld/w3af/cmd.php http://host.tld/w3af/webshell.php … Plugin type Crawl...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...