Wapiti 2.2.0 is available - Web application vulnerability scanner

[Nicolas Surribas <nicolas.surribas () gmail com>]

A new version of Wapiti was released : version 2.2.0.

Wapiti is a security scanner looking for vulnerabilities in web
applications.
The Wapiti code is platform independant (written in Python) and released
under the terms of the GPL license.

 What's new in this version :
   Added a manpage.
   Internationalization : translations of Wapiti in spanish and french.
   Options -k and -i allow the scan to be saved and restored later.
   Added option -b to set the scope of the scan based on the root url given.
   Wrote a library to save handle cookies and save them in XML format.
   Modules are now loaded dynamically with a dependency system.
   Rewrote the -m option used to activate / deactivate attack modules.
   New module to search for backup files of scripts on the target webserver.
   New module to search for weakly configured .htaccess.
   New module to search dangerous files based on the Nikto database.
   Differ "raw" XSS from "urlencoded" XSS.
   Updated BeautifulSoup to version 3.0.8.
   Better encoding support for webpages (convert to Unicode)
   Added "resource consumption" as a vulnerability type.
   Fixed bug ID 2779441 "Python Version 2.5 required?"
   Fixed bug with special characters in HTML reports.
   Fixed a lot of bugs.

Project page :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wapiti

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