Reports of a 0-day vulnerability in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner turn out to affect only an old version from 2012 which was subsequently fixed. A blog post has recently come to our attention that claims a successful attack against Acunetix v8 (build 20120704), and in…
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Creating Custom Checks in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner
You can reach the latest technical information here: Adding Custom Vulnerability Checks to Your Acunetix Installation Although Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) includes most of the checks that you may require to perform a comprehensive scan of your site, there might be situations where you…
Latest Acunetix release scans for Heartbleed Bug
Yesterday, an update was released for Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner which includes a test for a critical OpenSSL vulnerability named The Heartbleed Bug (CVE-2014-0160). Quote from the report: The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the…
How Acunetix Compares to Other Web Application Scanners
Acunetix is once again confirmed as one of the leaders in web application scanning with a 100% detection accuracy and 0% false positives for Reflected Cross-Site Scripting and SQL Injection vulnerabilities, together with a leading WIVET assessment score. In the 2013/2014 Web Application Vulnerability Scanners…
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner v9, build 20140206 includes several new tests for vulnerabilities on well-known web applications
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner version 9, build 20140206 is able to scan WordPress more efficiently, and includes various new checks for vulnerabilities in well-known systems such as MediaWiki, IBM Web Content Manager, Joomla! and Oracle. New Functionality in Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner v9 Added a…
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner v9, build 20131216 includes a new PCI 3.0 compliance report and several new tests
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner version 9, build 20131216 includes a new compliance report to cover the latest version of the PCI DSS Regulations. In addition, this new build checks for several vulnerabilities in various systems including Ruby on Rails, Zend Framework, Nginx and WordPress. New…
New Security Checks Added to Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner
The latest build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner includes a lot of changes and new security tests. Here is a short summary of the most interesting tests we’ve just added. 1. Vulnerable JavaScript libraries Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner can now identify vulnerable versions of various JavaScript…
Latest Improvements in the Detection of DOM XSS Vulnerabilities
The latest build of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (Build 20131023) released yesterday, contains important improvements in the detection of DOM XSS vulnerabilities. Our DeepScan technology was also further strengthened in this build. Take the following piece of code for example: This code is vulnerable to…
Latest WVS v9 build with new DOM XSS checks that can be injected in HTTP GET parameters
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner version 9, build 20131023 includes new DOM XSS checks for the type of DOM XSS vulnerabilities that can be injected in the HTTP GET parameters. This new build also includes the option to automatically save scan results to disk after a…