Acunetix WVS Build History

BETA Build v8.0.20111115 - 16th November 2011

New Features:

  • Manipulation of inputs from URLs
  • Automatic IIS 7 rewrite rule interpretation
  • Support for custom HTTP headers
  • Imperva Web Application Firewall integration
  • New vulnerability detection class: HTTP Parameter Pollution
  • Multiple instance support
  • Redesigned Scheduler
  • Automatic custom 404 error page recognition and detection
  • Scan settings templates
  • Simplified Scan Wizard
  • Smart memory management
  • Real-time Crawler status
  • Scan termination status included in report
  • Web application coverage report
  • Configuration of log file retention

Improvements:

  • All security checks have been optimized to further reduce detection of false positives
  • Detection of new security variants for existing vulnerabilities

Build v7.0.20111005 - 5th October 2011

New Features:

  • The Client Script Analyzer engine now supports jQuery, jQuery UI, and YUI Library
  • New URL Rewrite option: Match full URI. When enabled, a URL rewrite rule can be matched against the whole URI and not just the path

Improvements:

  • Major AcuSensor improvements for PHP
  • Inclusion of more variables discovered by Acusensor during a scan

Bug Fixes:

  • Login Sequence Recorder uses the specified Proxy settings correctly

Build v7.0.20110920 - 20th September 2011

New Security Check:

  • Security check for Apache httpd remote denial of service

Improvements:

  • Firefox plugin now supports Firefox v.6
  • Inclusion of more variables discovered by Acusensor during a scan

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed HTTP verb tampering security checks with further reduction of false positives
  • Paths edited in HTTP Authentication settings node are being saved correctly
  • Actions menu is appearing correctly in the Small Business Edition

Build v7.0.20110823 - 23rd August 2011

New Security Checks:

  • Complex security check for Timthumb (detects Wordpress installations and checks for vulnerable plugins and themes
  • Includes bruteforcing capabilites to look for plugins/themes that contain the Timthumb script
  • Security check for Sun/Oracle GlassFish Server Authentication Bypass (same check includes some additional checks for GlassFish)

Updates:

  • Updated Firefox plugin to support Firefox 5

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed an enumeration problem while parsing a WSDL with inputs that have a lot of possible values.

Build v7.0.20110711 - 17th July 2011

New Feature:

  • Included IMAGE tag with source in crawler for more detailed crawling data.

Improvements:

  • Improved Cross-site scripting checks.
  • Introduced a number of improvements in the Client Script Analyzer (CSA) module for better Web 2.0 crawling.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed crash in Login Sequence Recorder when accessing specific sites with frames.
  • Fixed Access Violation in fuzzer if XML filetype is selected and set an invalid filename.
  • Fixed issue when authenticating against websites using Digest and NTLM.
  • Fixed a file browser crash if visualizing file during scanning.
  • Fixed a crash when loading saved scans from specific websites.
  • Corrected interpretion of HTML encoding in Crawler.
  • Fixed Access Violation in Fuzzer

Build v7.0.20110518 - 18th May 2011

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed where the Acusensor Technology files were updated incorrectly.
  • Fixed Access Violation when scan is stopped.
  • Fixed user interface incorrect behaviour.

Build v7.0.20110406 - 6th April 2011

New feature:

  • AcuSensor details are now exported in the report as well.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a bug in cross domain check script.
  • Fixed 2 crashes in the scanner software.
  • Fixed a bug in DOM XSS security check.

Build v7.0.20110308 - 8th March 2011

New features:

  • Acunetix WVS will parse SVN repositories file structure and crawl it automatically

New security checks:

  • ClientAccessPolicy.xml and CrossDomain.xml security checks
  • Git repository security checks
  • Check if htaccess file is readable
  • Nginx PHP Code Execution via FastCGI
  • Nginx buffer underflow vulnerability
  • Nginx PHP FastCGI Code Execution File Upload.

Improvement:

Bug fixes:

  • Maximum directory depth value was not working properly
  • HTTP limitations were not respected from scripts
  • When scanning a domain with subdomains, in some cases multiple scans were created for the same subdomain
  • Properly handling of situations when a file redirects to itself from http to https.

Build v7.0.20110209 - 9th February 2011

New features:

  • PCI 2.0 compliance report template
  • CWE/SANS top 25 complaince report template

Improvement:

  • Input fields now support wildcards and priorities (read the section Traversing Web Form Pages in the Acunetix WVS user manual for more information)

Bug fix:

  • Fixed: access violation in Client Script analyzer engine  

Build v7.0.20110124- 24th January 2011

New features:

  • New type of XSS test introduced (parameter was set to javascript:...)

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Scanner crash when scanning https sites with client certificates.
  • Fixed: A number of particular checks were not performed when scanning from crawl results.
  • Fixed: Login Sequence Recorder: different user agent string was sent with XHR.
  • Fixed: Reports were not sent as attachments when scanning a list of URLs from the Scheduler.
  • Fixed: Fixed incorrect error message popup in scheduler "there is already a queue starting a that time when the queues were of different type"
  • Fixed: Crawler MaximumVariationCount was being ignored in the scanner settings.
  • Fixed: eval() security check moved from scanner to crawler.
  • Fixed: Aborting of analysis while executing events in CSA engine not always working.
  • Fixed: CSA engine "Worker already executing" exception.
  • Fixed: In XML or AVDL export CDATA content is no longer encoded.

Build v7.0.20101216- 20th December 2010

New features:

  • DOM XSS will now report the filename in which the attack was executed
  • DOM XSS checks on document.open, window.open, window.navigate and more

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Aborting analysis while executing events not always worked in CSA
  • Fixed: CSA engine crashing with "worker already executing" exception
  • Fixed: Crawler was not considering maximum number of variations in case of links from comments
  • Fixed: In some cases during a WSDL service scan, port address query params where not properly used
  • Fixed: False positive for ASP.NET padding oracle test
  • Bugfix: HTML parser; Fixed regex for extracting URLs from HTML comments

Build v7.0.20101206- 6th December 2010

New feature:

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Get First URL Only option not working correctly because it was still importing links from CSA engine
  • Fixed: "User credentials sent in clear text" was not being reported by crawler in certain circumstances
  • Fixed: Port was being specified in host header even if default ports were being used.

Build v7.0.20101123- 23th November 2010

Improvements:

  • More updates to the Client Script Analyser (CSA) engine for better Web 2.0 support

Bug fixes:

  • Fix: Added port in host header for https in manual browsing
  • Fixed: Crawler not serving pages to Client Script Analyzer engine on request if pages were already queued
  • Fixed: Compare results frame crashed if nodes are expanding while still comparing
  • Fixed: CanonicalizeLink was incorrectly interpreted ".." style links

Build v7.0.20101115- 15th November 2010

New features:

  • Ability to stop individual running security scripts during a scan

Major Improvements:

  • Introduced a good number of CSA engine improvements; better support of JQuery and Web 2.0 applications
  • Introduced a number of new XSS security checks

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Memory leak in NTLM authentication
  • Fixed: Incorrect interpratation of links with leading "//"
  • Fixed: Access violation crashes in HTTP Sniffer for certain SSL websites

Build v7.0.20101028- 28th October 2010

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Replay of recorded login sequences was not working properly in the free version
  • Fixed: NTML authentication was not working properly when using specific type of credentials
  • Fixed: Crash in Login Sequence Recorder while detecting invalid session on some particular websites
  • Bugfix: Fixed XSS tests to automatically follow redirects
  • Bugfix: Fixed script error in ASP.NET padding oracle test

Build v7.0.20101012 - 12th October 2010

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Client Script Analyser engine was blocking if insertAdjacentHTML used on an element without parent
  • Fixed: "Accept" header was not sent by the advanced penetration testing tools

Build v7.0.20100921 - 22nd September 2010

New Security Check:

  • Added a security check for the latest OpenX OFC file upload vulnerability
  • Added a ASP.NET security check for the ASP.NET padding Oracle vulnerability

Improvements:

  • Reduced the number of false positives for Blind SQL injections security checks
  • Improved Blind SQL injection tests by adding a number of new tests to detect blind SQL injections in UPDATE/INSERT/...

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed: Cookie encoding didn't worked as expected in some cases
  • Fixed: Cookie were not always imported from AcuSensor data

Build v7.0.20100902 - 2nd September 2010

New Features:

  • Added the option to mark a whole group or node alerts as false positive via right click 

Bug fixes:  

  • Problems with proxy authentication didn't allow proxy users to run scans
  • Mark Alert as false positive was not working properly in some cases

Build v7.0.20100901 - 1st September 2010 - NEW VERSION  

New Features:

  • New scanning engine - faster and reports more vulnerabilities
  • New vulnerability verifying techniques to reduce false positives
  • New site crawler - ability to crawl a wider range of websites and find more parameters
  • Scriptable Vulnerabilities - now vulnerability checks are written in JavaScript
  • Ability to analyse website presentation layer to better understand website parameters' functions
  • Graphical Scan status interface presents you with more scan information
  • Re-scan single vulnerability to avoid launching repetitive scans to verify fixes
  • Support for HTTP Keep-alive
  • DNS Caching to reduce multiple DNS requests
  • Ability to control delay between requests
  • HTTP authentication settings node - support for granular specifications of HTTP credentials
  • Support for digest HTTP authentication mechanism
  • AcuSensor Technology test button to quickly verify installation of remote AcuSensor agent
  • Different variants of the same vulnerability are consolidated under one alert node
  • Ability to specify label or tag instead of actual website parameter name in Input Fields node
  • Option to automatically randomize input for parameters specific in Input Fields node

New security checks:  

  • Test for SQL Injection in URI
  • Stored SQL injection
  • Stored file inclusion
  • Stored directory traversal
  • Stored code execution
  • Stored file tampering
  • A whole new set of more advanced WebDav auditing checks
  • Automated form based authentication auditing checks (e.g. check if credentials can be brute forced)

Major Improvements:

  • Consumes less bandwidth
  • Improved network traffic handling
  • HTTP authentication is now shared between all penetration testing tools
  • Improved HTTP Snifffer / Manual crawling process
  • Improved support for Web 2.0 requests and responses e.g. JSON, XML etc
  • Support for a wider variety of content-types
  • Improved Web 2.0 session management support
  • Imrpoved XSS (Cross-site scripting) security checks and detection rate
  • Added a number of new and improved existing web server security auditing techniques
  • Improved file upload security checks
  • Improved DNS auditing scripts

Build v6.5.20100616 - 16th June 2010

Change:

  • All vulnerabiliy checks which used http://*.acunetix.com test websites, now are using to http://*.vulnweb.com


Build v6.5.20100601 - 19th April 2010

New Feature:

  • Added OWASP top 10 2010 report template

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed: Proxy crashes when processing some specific SSL traffic  

Build v6.5.20100419 - 19th April 2010

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed: Access violation when the application exits

 


Build v6.5.20100407 - 7th April 2010

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed: Login Sequence Recorder was not using client certificates when recording a login sequence
  • Fixed: Login Sequence Recorder was not using the configured User Agent string
  • Fixed: HTTP Sniffer was not handling some specific web authentication properly

Build v6.5.20100303 - 3rd March 2010

New feature:

  • Added a new option to export results to HTTP Fuzzer

New Security Checks:

  • Test for XML External Entity Injection
  • Test for XML Injection

Improvements:

  • Improved directory traversal vulnerability check
  • Improved Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability checks

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed: access violation when the application exists
  • Fixed: access violation when protocol was terminated in NotifyCaller function in LSR
  • Fixed: AbortVulnXML OnFirstAlert was not imported from settings
  • Fixed: Form values were not encoded correctly when submitted from JavaScript (CSA engine)

Build v6.5.20100210 - 10th February 2010

New security check:

  • Test for Cross Site Scripting in the Referrer header

Improvement:

  • Acunetix Firefox extension now supports latest Firefox release

Bug Fixes:

  • Crawler: Html decode form inputs before usage
  • Fixed an infinite recursion when crawler reported an external link from the same host but on a different port
  • Fixed an issue with the crawler with parsing robots.txt file
  • Web Services scanner: Fixed parsing of WSDL files with attributes

Build v6.5.20100203 - 3rd February 2010

New security checks:

  • 8.3 DOS filename source code disclosure
  • Apache Tomcat Directory Host Appbase authentication bypass vulnerability
  • Apache Tomcat WAR File directory traversal vulnerability
  • Apache stronghold-info enabled
  • Apache stronghold-status enabled
  • ColdFusion 9 Solr Service exposed
  • Error page path disclosure
  • Error page web server version disclosure
  • File inclusion RFI list
  • Checks for multiple vulnerabilities in XAMPP
  • Server-Side Includes (SSI) injection on Unix
  • Server-Side Includes (SSI) injection on Windows
  • ASP.NET error messages when requesting URL like |.aspx

Improvements:

  • Added more variants to FCKeditor arbitrary file upload
  • Updated cross site scripting in path security checks
  • Updated directory listing security checks
  • Updated directory traversal on Unix security checks
  • Updated file upload security checks
  • Updated LDAP injection security checks
  • Updated possible sensitive files security checks
  • Updated XPath injection security checks

Bug Fixes:

  • Workaround for window.open used with NULL parameter
  • Notify elements that they are unbidden
  • Notify form if an input was removed
  • Include select element values in submitted data
  • Fixed: HttpProt was sending content length with CONNECT
  • Fixed: Crawler didn't consider post data for links from CSA engine; some where ignored
  • Fixed: Login sequence recorder was sending requests synchronously

Build v6.5.20100111 - 11th January 2010

New security checks:

  • Test for File Upload IIS bug filename.asp;.jpg
  • Test for WP-Forum 2.3 vulnerabilities
  • JBoss rmi ping (network script)

Bug Fixes:

  • Bugfix: Modified forms notifications from CSA
  • Bugfix: CSA: Workaround for window.open with null parameters
  • Fixed: In some specific scenarios the scheduler queue was restarting on its own
  • Fixed: Node was not expanding automatically when manually adding a new logout link in the LSR

Build v6.5.20091215 - 15th December 2009

New security checks:

  • JBoss BSHDeployer MBean
  • JBoss checks from RedTeam's paper
  • JBoss HttpAdaptor JMXInvokerServlet
  • JBoss Server MBean
  • JBoss ServerInfo MBean
  • JBoss Web Console JMX Invoker
  • phpShop v0.8.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities
  • Invision Power Board <= v3.0.4 Local PHP File Inclusion and SQL Injection

Improvements:

  • Improved Blind SQL injection tests to reduce false positives
  • Added better JBoss server detection
  • Better detection for Postgre SQL injections

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed: GUI crashes when specific settings are changed in the Port Scanner node
  • Fixed: Login Sequence recorder was retaining post data when redirecting to the same page

Build v6.5.20091130 - 30th November 2009

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed: crash in TM_MultiRequest_Parameter_Manipulation module
  • Fixed: bug in crawler related with GetVar encoding

Build v6.5.20091124 - 24th November 2009

New:

  • New security checks of AcuSensor Technology
    • curl_exec() url is controlled by user
    • PHP preg_replace used on user input
    • PHP super-globals-overwrite
    • PHP unseriazlie used on user input
  • Other new security checks of Acunetix WVS
    • osCommerce authentication bypass
    • Apache Tomcat insecure default administrative password
    • Apache Tomcat directory traversal
    • Checks for PHP invalid data type error messages
    • Check for possible remote SWF inclusion
    • Added further checks for possible sensitive files; general tests per server
    • Added further checks for possible sensitive directories; general tests per server
    • Added a new security check for SQL injection in the authentication header (basic authentication, base64 encoded)
    • Added AlertIfTextNotFound group parameter to invert search and issue an alert if a specified text is not found

Improvements:

  • Renamed Weak password module to Authentication module since now it includes much more authentication security checks
  • Improved Cross-site scripting in URI checks to include Ruby on rails security checks
  • Improved Application errors security checks
  • Introduced 3 new setting parameters for the crawler in Settings.XML file:
    • <MaxFirstPossibleValue>262144</MaxFirstPossibleValue>
    • <MaxOtherPossibleValues>256</MaxOtherPossibleValues>
    • <MaxNumberOfPossibleValues>1000</MaxNumberOfPossibleValues>

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed: false positives issued in weak password alert
  • Fixed: WSDL importer crash when importing recursive complex elements
  • Fixed: Crawler proxy request handling changed to decode the input name/value
  • Fixed Vulnerability Editor to show group parameters with default values if no VulnXML template is used
  • Changed HTTP_Anomalies to log PHP errors and save the results in a file (instead of alerts)Changed HTTP_Anomalies to log PHP errors and save the results in a file instead of alerts
  • Hidden VulnXML properties for alerts that are not using vulnxml default template in Vulnerability Editor
  • Adjusted VulnXML to reduce the number of false positives for Blind SQL injection timing tests
  • Updated CSA engine; delete the BOM characters from script sources
  • Updated URL_Helper; UrlEncode/Decode modified not to use str := str + ch and to validate hex characters after %
  • Updated File_Inputs; possible values are limited in size now

Build v6.5.20091027 -27th October 2009

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed: Redirect on LoginSequenceStep was not followed correctly
  • Fix in URL Rewrite module to remove GetVars before matching rules

Build v6.5.20091012 -12th October 2009

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed: Memory leak when invoking state change handler
  • Fixed: Item index for an item which has just been inserted fails in the Browserframe
  • Fixed: Error in indexing the get variables when redirecting in Session management

Build v6.5.20091005 - 5th October 2009

New:

  • Added a new check for SVN repositories

Improvements:

  • Improved MultiRequest paramenter manipulation; now using the form matcher to match parameter values
  • Improved SQL injection tests
  • Improved Application error tests

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed: Links from HTML comments and other sources that are not trusted where not checked if they are from the same host as the base
  • Fixed: Login sequence not working properly with HTTP authentication
  • Fixed: MessageDlg was used in inittempfiles in console mode
  • Fixed: WinInet bug to resent the request if the server accepts client certificates
  • Fixed: Redirect from index.php to index.php was not working

Build v6.5.20090917 - 17th September 2009

New:

  • Added two new blind SQL injection tests
  • Added a new scanning profile for stored XSS only
  • Added HTTP verb tempering using POST method check

Improvements:

  • Improved appearance for compliance report by adding visual markets and several other presentation enhancements

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed temporary files access issue
  • Fixed issue where HTTP Proxy was dublicating the connection: keep-alive header
  • Fixed issue where HTTP Proxy was putting the authorization header from fake basic authentication into server request
  • Fixed a problem where credentials configured through command line where not working properly in particular situations


Build v6.5.20090813 - 13th August 2009

Improvements:

  • HTML forms settings node was renamed to Input Fields.  This node now can also be used to pre-define web services operations values.
  • New SQL Injection tests added
  • New XSS tests (unicode) added


Build v6.5.20090728 - 28th July 2009

New Features:

  • Manual Intervention module: better support for CAPTCHA and modern authentication mechanisms  

Improvements:

  • Added new variants of blind SQL injection tests (now testing both AND and OR boolean operators)
  • Added new tests for SQL Injection with charset GBK/Big5
  • Added new variants for Cross site scripting

Bug Fixes: 

  • Fixed several issues with CSA (Client Script Analyzer) engine.


Build v6.5.20090622 - 22nd June 2009

Improvements:

  • Better cookies handling in several modules
  • Implemented exception handler in Login Sequence Recorder

Bug Fixes:

  • Handled issue when non-responsive hosts triggered download dialog 


Build v6.5.20090618 - 18th June 2009

 New Features:

  • Implemented Blind SQL Injection (timing) for web services scanner  
  • Implemented HTTP authentication for web services scanner

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed problem related to File Inclusion in AcuSensor Technology
  • Fixed a problem in ssl_ping network script


Build v6.5.20090519 - 20th May 2009  - NEW VERSION

 New Features:

  • File upload forms vulnerability checks  
  • New Login Sequence Recorder; supports much more authentication forms and web technologies  
  • Session Auto Recognition module; if the session is invalidated or logged out during crawling, the scanner will automatically replay the login sequence without the need of manual intervention  
  • Actions drop down menu; for each selected node, the actions drop down menu is activated showing all possible functions  
  • Much more checks and alerts for JSP, Java and Tomcat web server  

Major Improvements:

  • Improved cookie management and session handling to support modern dynamic websites
  • Port scanner and Network Alerts results will appear  in a separate node in the results tree
  • Users can import Version 6 settings to Version 6.5
  • Added blind SQL injection timing test using MySQL's sleep and MS SQL's waitfor function.  This will help in discovering particular blind SQL injections that do not report a change on the page


Build v6.1.20090211 - 11th February 2009

 General improvements:

  • CSA engine now supposrts jQuery and Yahoo! UI JavaScripts libraries
  • Added component in scanner to search for links in HTML comments and Flash (SWF) strings
  • Created an ASL.1 parser which can parse X509 Certificates
  • Improved Crawler; improved Wivet coverage to 94%
  • Added more JBoss configuration tests
  • Added more Tomcat tests
  • Added more web server configuration checks for server path, internal IP and username/password disclosure
  • Improved RSS/Atom parses
  • Added more attack vectors to source code disclosure and directory traversal tests for both Windows and Unix

Bug Fixes:

  • Reporter now filters very long knowledge base items
  • Fixed SSL3, TLS1 parsing issues
  • Fix in Crawler to handle better query variable in start URL's

Build v6.0.20081209 - 9th December 2008

 General improvements:

  • Optimized large portions of the code to improve speed
  • Optimized Progress text for scripts and port scan
  • Show progress on ScanInfo frame

Bug Fixes:

  • Module tm_backup_files - can make tests like {filename}{test}{extension} (e.g. file1.php from file.php)
  • Crawler was not sending the custom cookies for the first request reporter crash on settings read (only try/except)
  • Fixed crash in "import scan results to database" when the scan was running
  • SSL certificate validity year fix
  • Fixed a bug in parameter manipulation. Crashing when Combination was nil (no values)
  • Error in interpreting redirections of type "?getvar=value"
  • Fixed jsessionid session fixation test
  • Fixed Activation in v6 for Vista.
  • Fixed a problem with Authentication Tester (the app was not recovering when an invalid protocol was specified as target) - Reported by Harutyun Sardaryan
  • Fixed a crash in HTTP Fuzzer - Reported by Harutyun Sardaryan
  • Fix in Blind SQL Injector: On UNION SELECT based string extraction when httpencoding is applied the last char was eaten

Build v6.0.20081028 - 28th October 2008 - NEW VERSION

New tools / Applications:

General improvements:

  • Pause and Resume scan functionality
  • Option to mark an alert as false positive
  • Support for NTLM v2
  • Scanner can now gather a list of uncommon HTTP responses
  • Scanner can automatically stop if a number of network errors occure or web server does not respond.

User Interface improvements:

  • Compare results tool now compares also Knowledge Base items and list of open web server ports
  • Possibility to quickly locate a vulnerability by using a filter while before only search was allowed
  • In Scanning profiles and Vulnerability Edior vulnerabilities are automatically sorted by name
  • In HTTP Fuzzer results can be sorted by clicking on header columns and changes in Fuzzer filters are automatically reflected in results window

Scheduler improvements:

  • All scanning options are now available in scheduler
  • Option to configure the day of the week or month for a scheduled scan
  • Option to configure scan exclusion hours, i.e. when an ongoing scan should be paused and resumed

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 VERSION

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)

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