Acunetix WVS has the ability to discover links to pages that do not exist. In a world where sites are updated on a daily basis, it is quite easy to remove a page and forget to amend all links which refer to it resulting in…
Scanning a Shopping Cart with an Automated Security Scanner
Many of today’s large scale websites are template based. This means that most of the website pages which users visit are usually built from the same template file. Thus it is normal for a template based websites to be made up of about 20 or…
FAQ: How can I copy My Scanning Profiles from One Computer to Another?
An Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Scanning Profile defines which tests to launch against the target website. For example, if you wish to test a website against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, simply select the XSS Scanning Profile. You can also create a new Scanning Profile which includes…
FAQ: How do I Scan Multiple Websites with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner?
Running multiple instances of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) allows you to scan multiple websites simultaneously. Each instance can scan one website at a time – you can have up to two instances of all Acunetix WVS editions or up to ten instances if you…
FAQ: How Long does Web Scanning take with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner?
The time required for web scanning with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) varies depending on the size and complexity of the target website, the response time of the web server, the type of scan you are running (Quick, Heuristic or Extensive) and the scanning profile…
FAQ: Large log files fill up your Hard Disk when using Acunetix
When running several large scans (using the Scheduler, for example), you may encounter a situation where you run out of hard disk space for the logs generated by the scans. It would be useful to be able to redirect the logs folder to some other…
FAQ: Acunetix WVS Scan Settings templates
Scan Settings templates give you the ability to configure the scanner and save such configuration settings as a template for future use, instead of having to reconfigure the global scanner settings for different targets. Using Scan Settings Templates, you can quickly recall scanning options, headers…
FAQ: Which Web Security Alerts are Detected by the Acunetix Crawler?
Acunetix displays vulnerability alerts and threats in real-time throughout the scan. Before scanning a website or web application, Acunetix first crawls the website to find all available inputs and links that can be manipulated later during the scanning stage. However, some of these web security…
FAQ: Is it possible to have different scan settings templates?
In version 8 of WVS, it is possible to save the settings used to scan a website as a template. It is possible to have as many scan settings templates as you like, and they can all be recalled on the fly when performing repetitive…
