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This is a cheat sheet for nikto. A vulnerability Scanner

Scan options

–host
Scan host
-port
Scan host targeting specific ports
-maxtime
Define maximum scan time
-until
Scan duration
-vhost
Define host header
-ssl
to use SSL
-dbcheck
Check database
-output
output results into specified file
-ipv4
Ipv4 only
-ipv6
Ipv6 only
-list-­plugins
List all available plugins
-nolookup
Disables DNS lookups
-nossl
Disables the use of ssl

Mutate Options

-mutat­e<#>
1 - Test all files with all root direct­ories
 
2 - Guess for password file names
 
3 - Enumerate usernames via Apache
 
4 - Enumerate usernames via cgiwrap
 
5 - Attempt to brute force sub-domain names
 
6 - Attempt to guess directory names form the supplied dictionary file
-mutate4 > assumes that the host name is the parent domain
 

Display Options

-Displ­ay<­#>
1 - Display redirects
 
2 - Display cookies
 
3 - Display 200 ok response
 
4 - Display Web URLs requiring authen­tic­ation
-Displ­ay<­let­ter>
D - Display debug output
 
E - Show HTTP errors
 
P - Print to STDOUT
 
V - Verbose output display

Output Options

-Format
csv - Comma Separated Value
 
htm - HTML Format
 
txt - Plain text
 
xml - XML Format

Evasion Options

-evasi­on<­#>
1 - Random URI encoding (non-UTF8)
 
2 - Directory self-r­efe­rence
 
3 - Premature URL ending
 
4 - Prepend long random string
 
5 - Fake parameter
 
6 - TAB as request spacer
 
7 - Change the case of the URL
 
8 - Use Windows directory separator (\)
 

Tuning Options

-tunin­g<#>
0 - Upload files
 
1 - View specific file in log
 
2 - Default file miscon­fig­uration
 
3 - Display inform­ation disclosure
 
4 - Injection (XSS/S­cri­pt/­HTML)
 
5 - Remote File Retrieval
 
6 - Denial of Service
 
7 - Remote File Retrieval - Server Wide
 
8 - Remote Shell
 
9 - SQL Injection
-tunin­g<l­ett­er>
a - Authen­tic­ation Bypass
 
b - Software Identi­fic­ation
 
c - Remote Source Inclusion
 
x - Reverse Tuning Options
 

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