Starting from Acunetix Version 12 (build 12.0.190325161), Acunetix marks some vulnerabilities identified during a scan as verified. Verified vulnerabilities are vulnerabilities that Acunetix has detected with 100% certainty in the web application being scanned and thus they do not need to be manually verified. Acunetix…
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New build highlights verified vulnerabilities, checks for Nagios XI RCE, Cisco ISE XSS, Rails File Content Disclosure
Acunetix version 12 (build 12.0.190325161 – Windows and Linux) has been released. This new build indicates which vulnerabilities are verified and includes vulnerability checks for RCE in Nagios XI, XSS in Cisco Identity Service Engine, Rails File Content Disclosure, Apache Solr Deserialization of untrusted data,…
New build checks for Drupal RCE, ThinkPHP RCE, vBulletin LFI and Typo3 Restler LFI
Acunetix version 12 (build 12.0.190227132 – Windows and Linux) has been released. This new build includes a good number of new vulnerability checks, including checks for the recently discovered Drupal Remote Code Execution vulnerability, another RCE in ThinkPHP, Local File Inclusion vulnerabilities in vBulletin and…
New build facilitates scanning restricted areas and sites which use Swagger and SOAP
Acunetix version 12 (build 12.0.190206130 – Windows and Linux) has been released. This new build makes it easier to record Login Sequences which can be used to scan restricted areas, and provides support to provide Swagger and WSDL as import files to be used by…
New build checks for vulnerabilities in Apache products, Coldfusion, ACME mini_httpd and Spring Security
Acunetix version 12 (build 12.0.181218140 – Windows and Linux) has been released. This new build checks for vulnerabilities in Apache Solr, Apache mod_jk, Coldfusion, ACME mini_httpd, Spring Security. The new build also includes a number of updates and important fixes. The new vulnerability checks, updates…
Which Linux distributions can Acunetix be installed on?
Acunetix has been tested on the following Linux distributions: Ubuntu Desktop/Server 16.0.4 LTS or higher Suse Linux Enterprise Server 15 and openSUSE Leap 15.0 Acunetix may work on other Linux distributions. For example, we have a number of Acunetix users who installed Acunetix on Kali…
What is the difference between Acunetix for Windows and Acunetix for Linux?
The main difference is in the way that Acunetix is installed. The Windows version can be installed using the GUI installer, while the Linux version can be installed from Terminal. The Acunetix web UI is the same on Windows and Linux, and the same functionality…
New build updates DeepScan and LSR, introduces support for Swagger and Kerberos Auth
Acunetix version 12 (Windows build 12.0.181203110, Linux build 12.0.181204095) has been released. This new build includes updates to DeepScan and Login Sequence Recorder (LSR). It also introduces support for Swagger and Kerberos HTTP Authentication in the Windows version and introduces support for NTLM HTTP Authentication…
New build adds detection for CSP, SRI, Node.js source disclosure and Ghostscript RCE vulnerabilities
Acunetix version 12 (build 12.0.181012141) has been released. This new build reports sites that do not implement Content Security Policy (CSP) or Subresource Integrity (SRI) and detects Node.js source disclosure, Ghostscript RCE, SSRF in Paperclip and other vulnerabilities. This new build has a good number…