NAME
wapiti - a web application vulnerability scanner.
SYNOPSIS
wapiti http://server.com/base/url/ [options]
DESCRIPTION
Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your web applications.
It performs "black-box" scans, i.e. it does not study the source code
of the application but will scans the webpages of the deployed webapp,
looking for scripts and forms where it can inject data. Once it gets
this list, Wapiti acts like a fuzzer, injecting payloads to see if a
script is vulnerable.
OPTIONS
-s, --start <url>
specify an url to start with.
-x, --exclude <url>
exclude an url from the scan (for example logout scripts) you can
also use a wildcard (*):
Example : -x "http://server/base/?page=*&module=test" or -x
"http://server/base/admin/*" to exclude a directory
-p, --proxy <url_proxy>
specify a proxy (-p http://proxy:port/)
-c, --cookie <cookie_file>
use a cookie
-t, --timeout <timeout>
set the timeout (in seconds)
-a, --auth <login%password>
set credentials (for HTTP authentication) doesn’t work with Python
2.4
-r, --remove <parameter_name>
removes a parameter from URLs
-m, --module <module>
use a predefined set of scan/attack options:
GET_ALL: only use GET request (no POST)
GET_XSS: only XSS attacks with HTTP GET method
POST_XSS: only XSS attacks with HTTP POST method
-u, --underline
use color to highlight vulnerable parameters in output
-v, --verbose <level>
set the verbosity level:
0: quiet (default),
1: print each url,
2: print every attack
-h, --help
print help page
EFFICIENCY
Wapiti is developed in python and use a library I made called lswww.
This web spider library does the most of the work. Unfortunately, the
html parsers module within python only works with well formated html
pages so lswww fails to extract informations from bad-coded webpages.
Tidy can clean these webpages on the fly for us so lswww will give
pretty good results. In order to make Wapiti far more efficient, you
should:
apt-get install python-utidylib python-ctypes
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Nicolas Surribas
<nicolas.surribas@gmail.com>
Manpage created by Thomas Bläsing <thomasbl@pool.math.tu-
berlin.de>