Nikto is an open-source HTTP security auditing tool and web server vulnerability scanner. It functions as a reconnaissance engine designed to identify insecure server options, outdated software, and common vulnerabilities by analyzing HTTP responses. The project differentiates itself through capabilities for intrusion detection evasion and web server fingerprinting. It uses request-level encoding and timing spacers to bypass security filters and employs signature-based identification to determine specific server software versions and misconfigurations. The scanner covers broad capability are
rapid content discovery tool for recursively querying webservers, handy in pentesting and web application assessments
dirbuster-ng is C CLI implementation of the Java dirbuster tool
A Go implementation of dirsearch.
The main features of evilsocket/dirsearch are: Content Discovery.
Open-source alternatives to evilsocket/dirsearch include: sullo/nikto — Nikto is an open-source HTTP security auditing tool and web server vulnerability scanner. It functions as a… c-sto/recursebuster — rapid content discovery tool for recursively querying webservers, handy in pentesting and web application assessments. digination/dirbuster-ng — dirbuster-ng is C CLI implementation of the Java dirbuster tool. epi052/feroxbuster — Feroxbuster is an HTTP directory brute forcer and web resource enumerator designed to discover hidden files and… hakluke/hakrawler — Hakrawler is a command-line web spider tool designed for security reconnaissance, built to crawl target websites and… assetnote/kiterunner — Contextual Content Discovery Tool.
