Nikto

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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

96
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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

Author and Maintainers

Nikto is under development by David Lodge. This project is currently maintained by Chris Sullo, David Lodge.

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.