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Web Application Scanners
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Briefly, a web application scanner explores a web application by crawling through its web pages and examines it for security vulnerabilities, which involves generation of malicious inputs and evaluation of application's responses.
Specifications
Web Application Scanner Functional Specification Version 1.0, NIST Special Publication 500-269
- 21 August 2007 DRAFT
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- 7 March 2007 DRAFT
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