Evaluation and Testing of Several Free/Open Source Web Vulnerability Scanners
The 10th Conference for Informatics and Information Technology (CIIT 2013) The 10 th Conference for Informatics and Information Technology (CIIT 2013) EVALUATION AND TESTING OF SEVERAL FREE/OPEN SOURCE WEB VULNERABILITY SCANNERS Nataša Šuteva Dragi Zlatkovski, Aleksandra Mileva Faculty of Computer Science, UGD Faculty of Computer Science, UGD Štip, Macedonia Štip, Macedonia ABSTRACT significant number of vulnerabilities in test applications [1, 4, 12, 14, 15, 22]. Bau et al [1], testing eight WVSs, showed that Web Vulnerability Scanners (WVSs) are software tools for WVSs need to be improved in detection of the “stored” and identifying vulnerabilities in web applications. There are second-order forms of XSS and SQLI, and in understanding commercial WVSs, free/open source WVSs, and some of active content and scripting languages. Khoury [7, 8] companies offer them as a Software-as-a-Service. In this analyzed three state-of –art black box WVSs against stored paper, we test and evaluate six free/open source WVSs using SQLI, and their results showed that stored (persistent) SQLI the web application WackoPicko with many known are not detected even when these automated scanners are vulnerabilities, primary for false negative rates. taught to exploit the vulnerability. They propose also a set of recommendations for increasing a detection rate in WVSs for I. INTRODUCTION this type of vulnerability. Doupé et al [4] tested eleven WVSs, Our everyday live heavily depends on using different web and found that eight out of sixteen vulnerabilities were not applications, as web e-mail clients, web instant messaging detected by any of the used scanners. They discuss also a clients, Voice over IP services, e-learning portals, social critical limitations of current WVSs, lack of better support for networks, electronic banking, e-commerce platforms, etc.
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