Web application vulnerability scanners
are used to perform penetration testing and security testing of web
application. For large scale web applications, it is nice to have a
nice tool that can perform faster security audit and generate
professional test report.
These are the best 5 tool that are used for web application penetration testing.
Burp Suit
download : http://portswigger.net/burp/
Burp Suit is a nice platform for web application penetration testing. It contains many security tools that are designed in the way to speed up the process of attacking an web application. This scanner comes in a free trial version with limited features. Full version of Burp Suite Professional costs $299 per user per year.
Nikto
download : http://www.cirt.net/nikto2
Nikto is a nice opensource web sever scanner. It performs penetration test against web servers. This tool contains more than 6400 modules to check against all kind of vulnerabilities It can check for outdated versions of more than 1200 servers. It also checks for server misconfigurations. This tool also gets constant update to keep itself up to date.
W3af
download : http://w3af.sourceforge.net/
W3af is also a popular web vulnerability scanner available or free of cost. It supports editing/viewing HTTP/HTTPS messages on-the-fly to change items such as cookies and form fields. This tool can perform many taks including traffic recording, crawler, scanner and can attack with SQL injection, XSS and many other.
Skipfish
download : http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/
Skipfish is a popular web application security reconnaissance tool. It crawls the website and generate a sitemap it. Then it tries to attack on the web application to generate the list of the vulnerabilities present. This tool is developed in C and is highly optimized for HTTP handling.
The tool is believed to support Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Windows (Cygwin) environments.
Acunetix WVS
download : http://www.acunetix.com/vulnerability-scanner/
Acunetix WVS (web vulnerability scanner) automatically checks web applications for SQL injection, XSS, RFI, LFI, arbitrary file creation/deletion, weak password strength on authentication pages and many other dangerious vulnerabilities. It comes with a nice GUI and is used for professional security audits. This tool is a paid but you can also get a trial version of it.
pweb-suite
This tool comes with LFI, RFI, SQLI, XSS and other kind of vulneraability detection tools.
download : http://code.google.com/p/pweb-suite/
These are the best 5 tool that are used for web application penetration testing.
Burp Suit
download : http://portswigger.net/burp/
Burp Suit is a nice platform for web application penetration testing. It contains many security tools that are designed in the way to speed up the process of attacking an web application. This scanner comes in a free trial version with limited features. Full version of Burp Suite Professional costs $299 per user per year.
Nikto
download : http://www.cirt.net/nikto2
Nikto is a nice opensource web sever scanner. It performs penetration test against web servers. This tool contains more than 6400 modules to check against all kind of vulnerabilities It can check for outdated versions of more than 1200 servers. It also checks for server misconfigurations. This tool also gets constant update to keep itself up to date.
W3af
download : http://w3af.sourceforge.net/
W3af is also a popular web vulnerability scanner available or free of cost. It supports editing/viewing HTTP/HTTPS messages on-the-fly to change items such as cookies and form fields. This tool can perform many taks including traffic recording, crawler, scanner and can attack with SQL injection, XSS and many other.
Skipfish
download : http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/
Skipfish is a popular web application security reconnaissance tool. It crawls the website and generate a sitemap it. Then it tries to attack on the web application to generate the list of the vulnerabilities present. This tool is developed in C and is highly optimized for HTTP handling.
The tool is believed to support Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Windows (Cygwin) environments.
Acunetix WVS
download : http://www.acunetix.com/vulnerability-scanner/
Acunetix WVS (web vulnerability scanner) automatically checks web applications for SQL injection, XSS, RFI, LFI, arbitrary file creation/deletion, weak password strength on authentication pages and many other dangerious vulnerabilities. It comes with a nice GUI and is used for professional security audits. This tool is a paid but you can also get a trial version of it.
pweb-suite
This tool comes with LFI, RFI, SQLI, XSS and other kind of vulneraability detection tools.
download : http://code.google.com/p/pweb-suite/
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