Nessus XSS Discoveries

"Christopher Ashby" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <F5270D000BEF764597DC360E3106378D03462A7A@ranymail.reserveamerica.com>
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I have Nessus 2.2.10 running on a Linux distro, with the registered
feed. I'm updating my plugins whenever I need to complete an internal
vulnerability scan.

Upon further inspection, I have noticed that Nessus isn't discovering
XSS vulnerabilities as XSS but labeling them CGI discovery notices?  I'm
confused... Let me explain:

On a monthly basis we receive vulnerability scans from a third party
(Trust Wave), for our PCI Compliance.  Some of your may be aware, the
requirements have changed, and thus we received a (preview) scan with
the updated requirements.  As such I loaded my Nessus, ran a scan on the
same servers, and discovered some issues, BUT not the issues they
discovered namely XSS on an apache map database server.

My question is, am I missing something from Nessus (configuration
setting or plugin) that is not allowing me to discover XSS issues in my
apache web servers?  I have done extensive research into many plugins
and have most, if not all of them loaded, I have mucked with the
scanning options,  turning on all *malicious, or experimental setting
with still no luck..

I'm just looking for Nessus to output the same results as those
received.  I am not looking for the same wording, just the same score
(CVS# or CVSS2#) and vulnerabilities discovered.

(We are planning on upgrading Nessus to the latest version with a new
box, and obtaining the direct feed within the next month, but would like
this resolved it possible before that)

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks
Christopher
 
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