Am 01.10.2014 um 16:52 schrieb Brandon Perry:
> I agree that utilities like dirb and nikto are useful as plugins for OpenVAS 
> since these are generally applicable
> to any web server.
> 
> Arachni and wapiti require such application specific configurations that I 
> wouldn't want to give people using
> OpenVAS the idea that running arachni through OpenVAS is as good as running 
> it independently. Both are very
> powerful (particularly arachni), but I do think they almost serve a different 
> purpose than OpenVAS in that OpenVAS
> in my mind is about finding and remediating known vulnerabilities such as 
> missing patches and a /backup folder on a
> web server.
> 
> Finding SQL injections and XSS should be in the development lifecycle, not 
> the patch management and insecure
> configuration discovery

no - finding SQL injections and XSS is *by definition* the purpose of a 
security scan

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