Re: Opinions on Burp Suite Web App Scanner

On 12 October 2011 16:31, Derrenbacker,  L. Jonathan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have budget for a web app vulnerability scanner, and I was wondering if anyone has opinions on the professional version Burp Suite with the scanner option.
> Is the scanner any good? Accurate?
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> This is the website if anyone doesn't know what it is:
> http://portswigger.net/burp/scanner.html

It is a brilliant tool, well worth the cash compared to the much more
expensive alternatives. The built in scanner is fairly accurate, has a
few problems with LDAP injection false positives but tends to find XSS
and SQLi pretty well.

Robin

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> Thanks,
> Jon
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