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Website Vulnerability Scanner

The Website Vulnerability Scanner is a highly-accurate vulnerability scanning
solution, battle-tested in real life penetration testing engagements.

Quickly detect XSS, SQL injection, Command injection, XXE and other critical
issues - automatically validated to eliminate false positives.

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HTTPS www.example.com

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API

A powerful Website Scanner for

all web applications
Part of the Pentest-Tools.com pentesting arsenal, the Website Vulnerability
Scanner is a custom web application scanner that our team of security
researchers and engineers developed from scratch.

Designed to be both powerful and easy to use, the scanner accommodates

the needs of both security teams and application security professionals.

Built by penetration testers

The team behind the Website Vulnerability

Scanner has a proven hands-on experience
in penetration testing engagements and
other offensive security work. This is why
we designed the scanner to mimic

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attackers’ real tactics and focus on realistic,

exploitable issues rather than ticking boxes.
Furthermore, we battle-test the scanner
every day in the security testing work
performed by our professional services
team.

Low false positives rate

We’re constantly fine-tuning the scanner to

produce highly accurate results so you don’t
waste precious time with manual validation.
The Website Vulnerability Scanner does
automatic finding validation, applying a
Confirmed label when the tool is confident the
vulnerability is there.

Scan JavaScript-heavy websites

The Website Vulnerability Scanner uses a

powerful browser-based crawler to scan
Single Page Applications (SPAs) and other
JavaScript-heavy websites fast and
accurately. This approach ensures great
attack surface coverage and sets the ground
for a high vulnerability detection rate.

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Authenticated scanning

You can also use the Website Vulnerability

Scanner to scan behind login pages and
uncover vulnerabilities as an authenticated
user. The tool offers multiple authentication
methods such as username/password,
custom headers, cookies, and recorded login
sessions.

Out-of-band detection

Besides classic web application vulnerabilities

which show up immediately in the HTTP
responses, there are also those which don’t
appear in response pages. But, because they
produce out-of-band requests to our logging
servers, we are able to detect them this way.

High-quality reports

Our customers love the reports of the Website

Vulnerability Scanner because they include relevant
findings explained in a friendly language. There’s
also enough evidence and information to help you
reproduce and manually validate the finding, plus
detailed remediation recommendations.

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See how it works

Latest scanner updates

See changelog

22 October 2024

Fresh detectors & findings for your website scans,

too!

Our team also updated the Website Scanner's capabilities this past
month so you have a more comprehensive view of your targets.
You can:
detect insecure deserialization in PHP applications with the scanner’s
Active module

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automatically detect GraphQL as we’ve integrated our API Vulnerability

Scanner’s test methods for this language
We’ve also added more extensive findings to your scan results.
The Website Scanner now:
creates a new finding with all the API endpoints it detects during
crawling
fuzzes for Open API specifications, creates a new finding with any
identified results, and even adds it into the Specification Spider
adds exposures and exposed-panels Nuclei templates to the
Interesting files finding so you detect even more publicly accessible
pages that should’ve been hidden.
Plus, to make the overall scan results easier to navigate, we’re
highlighting the request/response lines for all detectors, both passive
and active.

13 September 2024

Get more from your Website Scanner results

27 August 2024

Faster & better detection with our Website Scanner!

Sample Website Vulnerability

Scanner report
This sample report from our scanner shows the main sections it includes, the
look and feel, plus the level of detail for the findings.

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Download sample report

VULNERABILITY SUMMARY

This section provides a helpful overview of the findings and a visual

representation of risk levels across all identified vulnerabilities.

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AUTOMATICALLY CONFIRMED FINDINGS

EVIDENCE AND SCREENSHOTS

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HTTP REQUEST / RESPONSE

RECOMMENDATIONS

CLASSIFICATIONS FOR OWASP, CWE

How does the Website

Vulnerability Scanner work?
The Website Vulnerability Scanner is a DAST (Dynamic Application Security
Testing) tool which tries to discover vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL injection,
HTTP Prototype Pollution, Directory Traversal, and more in running web
applications.

The scanner interacts with the target application by sending numerous HTTP
requests with specific payloads. If the application is vulnerable, these
payloads will determine the code to behave abnormally, informing the scanner
that a vulnerability exists.

Resource discovery Spidering

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Active scanning Passive scanning

Version-based CVE Full list of security

detection tests performed

Use this tool from your command

line interface
If you prefer it, we also provide a CLI version of our Website Vulnerability
Scanner. Through the Pentest-Tools.com CLI, you can run Light scans against
your web apps and start gathering insights for your next move.

Linux macOS

LINUX INSTRUCTIONS

1. Installation

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1 curl -s https://pentest-tools.com/cli-scan/linux/ptt.zip
2 unzip /tmp/ptt.zip -d /tmp/ptt
3 chmod +x /tmp/ptt/main
4 sudo mv /tmp/ptt/main /usr/local/bin/ptt

If you have docker or pip installed, you can use them to get ptt-scan:

docker pip

1 docker run --rm -it pentesttoolscom/ptt-scan:latest run

2. Usage

Quickstart: Run the following command in your terminal/command

line to find the vulnerabilities of your website.

1 ptt run website_scanner <target_url>

You can learn more options with the -h flag:

1 ptt -h

MACOS INSTRUCTIONS

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WINDOWS INSTRUCTIONS

It's really easy to scan your web

application for vulnerabilities

No setup required
Being a cloud-based scanner, it just works out of the box. There’s no need to
install anything on your end to scan public-facing web applications. Just create
an account and start scanning.

Scheduling
It’s a really good idea to scan your web applications periodically since new
vulnerabilities appear every day. With Pentest-Tools.com, you can schedule daily,
weekly, monthly or quarterly scans against your web apps and automatically get
reports via email or other channels when risks emerge.

API access
Many of our customers prefer to trigger scans programmatically, through our
REST API. This lets you integrate our scanner with your internal processes
(CI/CD, data sources, custom applications) and reduces manual scanning work.

Internal scanning
You can also use the Website Vulnerability Scanner to detect vulnerabilities in
applications hosted on internal networks, intranets, private clouds, or restricted
network segments. A quick and easy VPN Agent setup routes the traffic from our
servers to your internal network and gets you ready to scan.

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Integrations
We know your security team loves their tools. So, we made sure ours plays nicely
with favorites like Jira, Slack, Email, and Webhooks. Just set your rules and get
your results automatically on any of these platforms when the scans are done.

Customer reviews

Pentest-Tools.com is my team's first go-to solution. Anytime we are

preparing to deploy a new version of our software, we run many tools to
monitor and secure our environment, but the simplicity and ease we
have with Pentest-Tools.com to run network and web server scans to
highlight issues is unmatched.

Michael Dornan
CEO at Tili Group
Israel 🇮🇱

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Common questions about web

vulnerability scanning

What is a web vulnerability scanner?

A web vulnerability scanner is a specialized software tool

designed to automatically identify security flaws within web
applications. A reliable, robust website security scanner should
be able to mimic real attacker tactics and identify realistic,
exploitable security issues.

Our Website Vulnerability Scanner is a robust example of this

type of tool, offering a comprehensive scan that identifies
threats and also validates them to reduce false positives.

It works by interacting with the target application, sending a

series of HTTP requests with specific payloads, and analyzing
the responses to detect potential vulnerabilities such as Cross-
Site Scripting (XSS), SQL injection, and other pressing security
issues and misconfigurations.

How long does a website security scan take?

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How do I scan a password-protected site for

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