Steve,

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:39 AM, steve jacobs <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. For a beginner who doesnt want to bring down our site,
> corrupt the DB etc, which plugins should we steer clear of just to get a
> feel for w3af. Namely which w3af plugins can do significant damage?

If you keep away from the attack plugins, you'll be ok. Start out with
a simple discovery.webSpider + audit.sqli + audit.xss and you'll get
an idea of the framework,

> Also for the scans, do you run it per application, or page page in the
> application.

Per application.

> Could I just run it against www.myapp.com
>
> Or would it need run against
> www.myapp.com/search/ www.myapp.com/adminconsole/ etc?

Point it to www.myapp.com , and enable the webSpider plugin, that
plugin should find all the links.

Cheers,

> Regards,
>
>> From: [email protected]
>> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:42:38 -0300
>> Subject: Re: [W3af-users] Plugins
>> To: [email protected]
>> CC: [email protected]
>>
>> Steve,
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:27 PM, steve jacobs <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Does anyone have a document that lists and describes all the w3af
>> > plugins,
>> > what they do, and what the potential risk impact is by running them?
>>
>> Please read this [0] link, there you'll find the description for each
>> plugin. Regarding the impact of running each plugin... no... there is
>> nothing about that.
>>
>> [0] http://w3af.sourceforge.net/plugin-descriptions.php
>>
>> > By installing w3af have I got all the plugins, or can you download
>> > individual ones?
>>
>> By installing w3af, you get all the plugins.
>>
>> > Regards.
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