Penetration Testing: Re: Scanner for old files (.bak, ~, .old, etc.)

[Sandro Gauci <sandro () enablesecurity com>]

I guess this is a feature of many web application vulnerability
scanners (not Nikto but the XSS/SQLi etc type). I've used Acunetix's
WVS and it does exactly what you describe.

- sandro
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Juan Kinunt<kinunt () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if anyone knows a tool that first spiders the web
> in order to enumerate al files and scripts it detects and then look
> for this same files but with another extension. For example, first
> spiders the web and enumerate:
>
> index.php
> news.php
> cart.php
>
> And then looks for index.php.bak, index.php.inc, index.php~,
> index.bak, index.old, etc.
>
> This tool will be useful supossing that programmers tend to change the
> extension of the file to store old files.
>
> I know Nikto, Wikto, etc... but this tools look for predefined files
> and I would like to target already existing files but with different
> extension.
>
> If the tool does not exist I'll try to code something.
>
> Thanks.
>
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