Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner

Acunetix web vulnerability scanner is a tool designed to discover security holes in your web applications that an attacker would likely abuse to gain illicit access to your systems and data. It looks for multiple vulnerabilities including SQL injection, cross site scripting, and weak passwords.
The application can be used to perform scanning for web and application vulnerabilities and to perform penetration testing against the identified issues. Mitigation suggestions are then provided for each weakness and can be used to increase the security of the web server or application being tested.

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in this tutorial i will show you how to scan your website and Analyzing the Scan Results .
there are two ways to scan your website
first method : enter your website url chose profil as default and click start ,this can be used for fast scans .

second method is to use scan wizard which allow great of granularity in the scanning options , i will use scan wizard to explain some of this options .

first enter url of the website you wich to scan , in this case i will scan a test site hosted by acunetix .

http://testphp.vulnweb.com/

click next when you are ready

its time to select scanning profil

scanning profil are simple template which include or exclude specific vulnerability test  , however in this demonstration i will select default profil which include all vulnerabilitys checks  .

click next to proceed

the wizard will now make an  analysis , to identify webserver operating system and web technology  used by the site

click next and finish to start the scan

acunetix will proceed to crawling the site ,identifying all the pages forms and inputs and vulnerabilities  from high toinformational

acunetix also provide ideational information on the vulnerability  and some advices to fix it .

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