Acunetix WVS Build History

Build v5.1.70829 - 4th September 2007

  • Huge improvement in memory handling! - Memory handling is now done in a much more efficient way and temporary data is now stored by default onto the hard drive freeing up a LOT of system memory especially when dealing with large websites.
  • Introduced pre-conditions to various vulnerability tests - this will check if vulns can actually exist in a certain environment before starting to test for then - thus avoiding checking for vulnerabilities in vain and at the same time speeding up the scanning time.
  • Summary view for alert nodes - avoids long delays in displaying all alerts under a node
  • Added "Current Test" information to the scan information view
  • Improvements in HTTP Fuzzer
  • Fixed Javascript issue with parsing certain websites
  • Fixed validation when saving login sequence file
  • Fixed crash with error "sitefile parts already loaded"
  • Fixed Web Services Scan Wizard detection of Inputs for particular WSDL URLs
  • Fixed Web Services Scaner crash when clicking on some elements of the tree structure

Build v5.0.70621 - 25th June 2007

  • Tweak in Heuristic scanning mode for improved memory management
  • Enabled by default save crawling data to disk
  • Added Day and Month to timestamps in Activity Window
  • Small text changes in crawler settings
  • Elevation of privileges OS vulnerability fix

Build v5.0.70604 - 11th June 2007

New Tools / Applications:

  • Subdomain Scanner
  • Web Services Scanner
  • Web Services Editor
  • Reporter Application

General Improvements:

  • Microsoft WindowsVista Support
  • Visual Interface Improvements with new graphics and buttons
  • Source View in various parts of the product
  • Password protection for all Acunetix Tools and applications
  • Upgrading from Previous Versions/Builds keeps all Settings and Configurations

Reporting Improvements:

  • New Reporter Application
  • Detailed Scans View from the Database
  • Standard Report Templates: Developer, Executive, Vulnerability
  • Scan Comparison Templates
  • Statistical Templates: Yearly, Monthly, etc..
  • Compliance Reports Templates: PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, etc..

Crawler Improvements:

  • Manual Choice of Files from the Site Structure
  • Directory Recursion (loop) Detection
  • URL Rewrite Detection and Warning to User
  • Improved Filtering (replacing the old search functionality)

Scanner Improvements:

  • New Scanning Mode Option: Quick, Heuristic and Full
  • Multi-Step Scanning
  • Stored XSS Tests
  • Header Manipulation
  • Improved Blind SQL Injection Tests
  • Improved Mod_Rewrite Support
  • Improved Filtering (replacing the old search functionality)
  • Grouping of Test Variants
  • Sitemaps Support
  • Added New Vulnerability Tests

Scheduler Improvements:

  • Support for Web Services Scheduled Scans
  • New options for Source and Output of Scans
  • Mail Notifications

Command Line Improvements:

  • New options added to support more functions like the full application
  • Web Services Scans
  • Mail Notifications

Database Improvements:

  • Significantly Reduced DB Size by 90% while keeping the same details and more!
  • New Database Structure (conversion tool available to upgrade from v4 structure)