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« on: December 03, 2009, 01:15:59 PM »

Hello all,
I am trying to gather some info on which is the most used/favorite open source web application scanner out there. Would be grateful if you could spare 2secs to answer 3-4 questions.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFNpQmNfUWx4UEFicW0wQXlZTFQyV0E6MA

Thank you!
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« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2009, 03:39:10 PM »

I hope you relaese the results back here.  Good luck with the survey.
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« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2009, 07:12:42 AM »

Thanks to everyone who submitted responses!  Smiley

Here are the results:
http://www.ethicalhack3r.co.uk/2009/12/07/open-source-web-application-scanner-poll-results/

Thanks again!
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« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2009, 08:33:12 AM »

surprised msf/wmap faired that well above other tools.
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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2009, 12:52:24 PM »

Also, i see no Grendel Scan, which is my fav now. Has its own tests plus incorporates the Nikto DB.
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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2009, 12:58:58 PM »

Also Paros provides functionality to scan for input validation, its should be considered as well. Burp is much better but not open source =(
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« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2009, 02:03:16 PM »

@ChrisG - I was surprised too, judging from some of the 'additional comments' they were voting for the Metasploit Framework itself and not the web application modules which was what was intended.

@Jhaddix - Grendel and Paros completely slipped my mind. I added an 'other' option which some people did vote for other applications which weren't on the list.

I think in future I am going to leave the poll run for longer and try to spread the word a little more to get more submissions.
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« Reply #7 on: December 07, 2009, 04:15:04 PM »

Jhaddix, just out of curiosity, why do you like Grendel Scan the best?    I thought that the best feature about Grendel is its ability to easily pass authentication to the app your are scanning.  W3AF is a complete pain when it comes to that.   I tend to use Grendel (actually from your recommendation a while back) when I need to scan content only available to authenticated users.

I still fall back to w3af for most of everything else.  It seems to have more scans and interfaces with BEEF and others, which I like. 

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« Reply #8 on: December 07, 2009, 04:21:51 PM »

To be honest I have never used Grendel, I have seen it installed in BackTrack but never had a play. I agree that w3af's authentication settings do need improving, from the top of my head I think w3af uses a cookie jar file from an old version of Firefox?!

Off to play with Grendel.  Smiley
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« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2009, 05:42:50 AM »

Yep, cookiejar it is.  It's clunky. 
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