Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner Version 8 build 20121003 released

The new Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 build includes a new crawler feature to automatically ignore duplicate input schemes in the same directory. With this new crawler feature, scans will take less time to complete and less traffic is generated during a scan. The new build also includes a number of new security checks, improvement of already existing checks, such as the Cross-site scripting security check and a number of bug fixes.

New Features

Added a new option to allow offline activation of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner
Added heauristic input limitations in crawler for more efficient scanning

New Web Security Checks:

SQL Injection tests for OpenX web application
Cross-site scripting checks for IBM Lotus Domino Web Server
Search for MySQL connection details when scanning a website
Detection of phpMyAdmin v3.5.2.2 backdoor

Improvements:

Further enhanced the XSS security check
Improved Remote file inclusion security check
Local file inclusion tests have been improved to better handle Java based applications
When importing scan results to reporting database using the console, the database scan ID will be reported