How does Acunetix WVS work?
Acunetix WVS has a vast array of automated features and manual tools and, in general, works in the following manner:
- It crawls the entire website – by following all the links on the site and in the robots.txt file (if available). WVS will then map out the website structure and display detailed information about every file.
- After this Discovery Stage or crawling process, WVS automatically launches a series of vulnerability attacks on each page found, in essence emulating a hacker. WVS analyzes each page for places where it can input data, and subsequently attempts all the different input combinations. This is the Automated Scan Stage.
- As it finds vulnerabilities, Acunetix WVS reports these in the “Alerts Node”. Each alert contains information about the vulnerability and recommendations on how to fix it.
- After a scan has been completed, it may be saved to file for later analysis and for comparison to previous scans. With the reporter tool a professional report may be created summarizing the scan.
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