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NAME
       wapiti - a web application vulnerability scanner.

SYNOPSIS
       wapiti http://server.com/base/url/ [options]

DESCRIPTION
       Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your web applications.
       It  performs  "black-box"  scans,  i.e.	it  does  not study the source code of the application but will scans the webpages of the deployed
       webapp, looking for scripts and forms where it can inject data. Once it gets this list, Wapiti acts like a fuzzer,  injecting  payloads	to
       see if a script is vulnerable.

OPTIONS
       -s, --start <url>
	    specify an url to start with.

       -x, --exclude <url>
	    exclude an url from the scan (for example logout scripts) you can also use a wildcard (*):
	    Example : -x "http://server/base/?page=*&module=test" or -x "http://server/base/admin/*" to exclude a directory

       -p, --proxy <url_proxy>
	    specify a proxy (-p http://proxy:port/)

       -c, --cookie <cookie_file>
	    use a cookie

       -t, --timeout <timeout>
	    set the timeout (in seconds)

       -a, --auth <login%password>
	    set credentials (for HTTP authentication) doesn't work with Python 2.4

       -r, --remove <parameter_name>
	    removes a parameter from URLs

       -m, --module <module>
	    use a predefined set of scan/attack options:
		 GET_ALL: only use GET request (no POST)
		 GET_XSS: only XSS attacks with HTTP GET method
		 POST_XSS: only XSS attacks with HTTP POST method

       -u, --underline
	    use color to highlight vulnerable parameters in output

       -v, --verbose <level>
	    set the verbosity level:
		 0: quiet (default),
		 1: print each url,
		 2: print every attack

       -h, --help
	    print help page

EFFICIENCY
       Wapiti  is  developed  in Python and use a library called lswww. This web spider library does the most of the work. Unfortunately, the html
       parsers module within python only works with well formed html pages so lswww fails to extract information from bad-coded webpages. Tidy can
       clean these webpages on the fly for us so lswww will give pretty good results. In order to make Wapiti far more efficient, you should:

		 apt-get install python-utidylib python-ctypes

AUTHOR
	    Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Nicolas Surribas <nicolas.surribas@gmail.com>

	    Manpage created by Thomas Blasing <thomasbl@pool.math.tu-berlin.de>

http://wapiti.sourceforge.net/					     July 2007								 WAPITI(1)