Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner v8 Released Candidate Released
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) is an automated web application security testing tool that audits your web applications by checking for exploitable hacking vulnerabilities. Automated scans may be supplemented and cross-checked with the variety of manual tools to allow for comprehensive web site and web application penetration testing.
Improvements:
- The accuracy of Script Checks has been increased. The Acunetix development team is dedicated to continuously improve scan detection of security checks.
- The Graphical User Interface (GUI) has been enhanced in order to make menu navigation and usage easier and more effective than ever before.
- SSL security audit script is launched automatically when scanning a HTTPS website, regardless if port scanning is enabled or not.
- Added a number of new SQL Injection variants checks.
Bug Fixes:
- HPP detection security script failed when testing input scheme with excluded variants
- Apply settings button not showing up in specific cases
- Fixed several issues related to pausing and resuming of crawler
- Fixed several issues when running multiple instances of the reporter
- Two backup files were being generated because of filename case insensitivity
- Filtering of wildcards from robots.txt
This release candidate of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8 is considered complete, stable, and suitable for testing.
More Information:
