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WhatWeb v0.4.7 Released. Performance enhancements and bug fixes
From: Andrew Horton <andrew () morningstarsecurity com>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 23:42:12 +1200
Version 0.4.7 of WhatWeb is now released. This is a stability release with performance enhancements and a few bug fixes. .$$$ $. .$$$ $. $$$$ $$. .$$$ $$$ .$$$$$$. .$$$$$$$$$$. $$$$ $$. .$$$$$$$. .$$$$$$. $ $$ $$$ $ $$ $$$ $ $$$$$$. $$$$$ $$$$$$ $ $$ $$$ $ $$ $$ $ $$$$$$. $ `$ $$$ $ `$ $$$ $ `$ $$$ $$' $ `$ `$$ $ `$ $$$ $ `$ $ `$ $$$' $. $ $$$ $. $$$$$$ $. $$$$$$ `$ $. $ :' $. $ $$$ $. $$$$ $. $$$$$. $::$ . $$$ $::$ $$$ $::$ $$$ $::$ $::$ . $$$ $::$ $::$ $$$$ $;;$ $$$ $$$ $;;$ $$$ $;;$ $$$ $;;$ $;;$ $$$ $$$ $;;$ $;;$ $$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$ $$$ $$$$ $$$ $$$$ $$$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$' Download: www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/whatweb/whatweb-0.4.7.tar.gz Homepage: www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/whatweb/ Latest Version: 0.4.7, 5th April 2011 License: GPLv2 Author: urbanadventurer aka Andrew Horton from Security-Assessment.com Wiki: https://github.com/urbanadventurer/WhatWeb/wiki Development Version: https://github.com/urbanadventurer/WhatWeb About WhatWeb ================================================================================ WhatWeb identifies websites. It's goal is to answer the question, "What is that Website?". WhatWeb recognises web technologies including content management systems (CMS), blogging platforms, statistic/analytics packages, JavaScript libraries, web servers, and embedded devices. WhatWeb has over 900 plugins, each to recognise something different. WhatWeb also identifies version numbers, email addresses, account ID's, web framework modules, SQL errors, and more. WhatWeb can be stealthy and fast, or thorough but slow. WhatWeb supports an aggression level to control the trade off between speed and reliability. When you visit a website in your browser, the transaction includes many hints of what web technologies are powering that website. Sometimes a single webpage visit contains enough information to identify a website but when it does not, WhatWeb can interrogate the website further. The default level of aggression, called 'passive', is the fastest and requires only one HTTP request of a website. This is suitable for scanning public websites. More aggressive modes were developed for in penetration tests. Most WhatWeb plugins are thorough and recognise a range of cues from subtle to obvious. For example, most WordPress websites can be identified by the meta HTML tag, e.g. '<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.6.5">', but a minority of WordPress websites remove this identifying tag but this does not thwart WhatWeb. The WordPress WhatWeb plugin has over 15 tests, which include checking the favicon, default installation files, login pages, and checking for "/wp-content/" within relative links. Features: * Over 900 plugins * Control the trade off between speed/stealth and reliability * Plugins include example URLs * Performance tuning. Control how many websites to scan concurrently. * Multiple log formats: Brief (greppable), Verbose (human readable), XML, JSON, MagicTree, RubyObject, MongoDB. * Recursive web spidering * Proxy support including TOR * Custom HTTP headers * Basic HTTP authentication * Control over webpage redirection * Nmap-style IP ranges * Fuzzy matching * Result certainty awareness * Custom plugins defined on the command line Changelog ================================================================================ Version 0.4.7 Released April 5th 2011 * Performance enhancements & bug fixes * Added -p + as a shortcut for -p +plugins-disabled * Added --quiet, -q - to not display brief logging to STDOUT * Fix Makefile - you can now install whatweb over an old version * Removed certainty from Mongo and JSON output unless certainty < 100 * Removed certainty info from verbose output unless certainty <100 * Bugfixes for error reporting * Updated some error messages * Disallow simultaneous use of aggressive level 3+ and recursive spidering * Changed default open and read timeouts to 15 and 30 seconds respectively * Updated slow plugins * Added plugins: TVersity, Ultimate-Bulletin-Board, * Moved plugins to plugins-disabled: atom_feed, meta-city, meta-contact, meta-country, meta-geography, meta-state, meta-zipcode and script * Renamed mailto plugin to email -- Cheers, Andrew Horton Security Consultant for Security-Assessment.com _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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