Nikto
Tool and Usage
Project details
- Licenses
- GPLv2
- Multi-license
- Programming language
- Perl
- Author
- David Lodge
- Latest release
- 2.5.0
- Latest release date
Project health
Why this tool?
Nikto helps with performing security scans against web servers and to search for vulnerabilities in web applications.
Background information
Note: the data files of Nikto are not released under GPL. Embedding them in your projects may require permission of the author.
Usage and audience
Nikto is commonly used for penetration testing, security assessment, or web application analysis. Target users for this tool are developers, pentesters, and security professionals.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
- + Well-known tool
Installation
Supported operating systems
Nikto is known to work on Linux.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a web application scanner and website security audit tool.