Hello,

I've just committed an updated version of plugin for Nikto 
(http://cirt.net/nikto2) integration. It now works (even better) with the new 
Nikto 2.0. Please take a look at the new plugin and let me know what you 
think.

I've changed the plugin to be more verbose in case it was unable to start 
Nikto; the previous version would just silently fail if nikto.pl wasn't in 
the path or the target did not return 404 on non-existent pages.

Older Nikto versions tended to report quite an amount of false positives if 
the target did not return 404s; the 2.0 version seems to report far less 
false positives in this case. I think it should be up to the user to perform 
a scan in this case and have added an option to force the scan under theses 
circumstances. Forcing this scan will now generate a warning in the report.

The new plugin is geared towards Nikto 2.0 (although it will work with older 
versions), so I've removed the configuration options no longer supported in 
Nikto 2.0 from nikto.nasl.

Since I haven't used Nikto in great detail, I'm not sure which options should 
be controllable from within OpenVAS. You can find a list of all available 
options at http://cirt.net/nikto2-docs/ch04.html ; any suggestions are 
appreciated.

Regards,

Michael

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Michael Wiegand                                   OpenPGP key: D7D049EC
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