WhatWeb version 0.4 released

[Andrew Horton <andrew () morningstarsecurity com>]

I've just released a new version of WhatWeb, a next generation web scanner. This scanner isn't
designed to find vulnerabilities but to identify web software. I've fixed some bugs,
added features and added more plugins. Thanks to Emilio Casbas and Louis Nyffenegger for
contributing plugins :)

You can read more and download it from http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/whatweb

DESCRIPTION
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Identify content management systems (CMS), blogging platforms, stats/analytics packages, javascript
libraries, servers and more. When you visit a website in your browser the transaction includes many
unseen hints about how the webserver is set up and what software is delivering the webpage. Some of
these hints are obvious, eg. "Powered by XYZ" and others are more subtle. WhatWeb recognises these
hints and reports what it finds.

WhatWeb has over 70 plugins and needs community support to develop more. Plugins can identify
systems with obvious identifying hints removed by also looking for subtle clues. For example, a
WordPress site might remove the tag <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.6.5"> but the
WordPress plugin also looks for "wp-content" which is less easy to disguise. Plugins are flexible
and can return any datatype, for example plugins can return version numbers, email addresses,
account ID's and more.

There are both passive and aggressive plugins, passive plugins use information on the page, in
cookies and in the URL to identify the system. A passive request is as light weight as a simple GET
/ HTTP/1.1 request. Aggressive plugins guess URLs and request more files. Plugins are easy to write,
you don't need to know ruby to make them.


CHANGES
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Version 0.4
* Added HTTPS support
* Improved installation instructions
* Improved documentation
* Better compatibility with ruby 1.9. Changed a case statement syntax, changed when 0: to when 0 then.
* Removed UTF-8 characters in plugins that were causing crashes
* Added php-nuke plugin, passively recognises modules
* Added Fluxbb plugin, can identify versions aggressively
* Added meta powered-by plugin. Matches tags like <meta name="powered-by" content="abc/1.23" />
* Added powered by plugin. Matches "Powered by BobsCMS", any text following powered by
* Improved plugin info listing invoked by ./whatweb -I. Shows number of examples and matches, and
shows presence of passive and aggressive functions
* Changed output style. Before strings are surrounded by single quotes, now all strings are
surrounded by square brackets
* Added OpenCMS plugin submitted by Emilio Casbas
* Added TomCat plugin submitted by Louis Nyffenegger
* Improved meta-generator plugin
* Fixed a bug in processing a target list from a file where a trailing space would be interpreted
incorrectly


Homepage: http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/whatweb

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Cheers,

Andrew Horton

MorningStar Security
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Web www.morningstarsecurity.com

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