Scanning for vulnerabilities using Custom Cookies

There may be some cases in which a website or web application you are scanning requires custom cookies to be set to be scanned properly.

In Acunetix, you can set custom cookies which will be used during the crawl and scan.

To add a custom cookie to a Target in Acunetix

1. Navigate to the Target’s settings and switch to the Advanced tab
2. Enable Custom Cookies
3. Enter the URL to apply the cookie to, together with its value as shown above
4. Click Add to add the custom cookie
5. Click Save

THE AUTHOR

Juxhin Dyrmishi Brigjaj

Acunetix developers and tech agents regularly contribute to the blog. All the Acunetix developers come with years of experience in the web security sphere.