Web server vulnerability scanner for security assessments
Nikto is an open-source web server scanner that performs comprehensive tests to detect potentially dangerous files, outdated server software, and configuration issues. It’s widely used by penetration testers and security professionals for auditing web applications and infrastructure. Nikto supports multiple output formats and can integrate with other tools for automated scanning workflows.
Wapiti is a vulnerability scanner for web applications.
It currently search vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL and XPath injections, file inclusions, command execution, XXE injections, CRLF injections, Server Side Request Forgery, Open Redirects...
It use the Python 3 programming language.