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12010-04-09
2        - Ticket 137: Added -ask to override nikto.conf's UPDATES value (same options)
32010-04-01
4        - Ticket 134: Added documentation of -config to usage_short
52010-03-26
6        - Added nbe output plugin written by Frank Breedijk
72010-03-15
8        - Ticket 130: Added -D E to show HTTP errors, otherwise suppress.
9        - Ticket 129: Change references for config.txt to nikto.conf.
102010-03-10
11        - Moved do_auth to a postfetch plugin.
122010-03-09
13        - Removed dead code from fetch().
14        - Optimizations in nfetch(), nikto.pl, & elsewhere.
15        - Added support for prefetch and postfetch hooks.
16        - Moved content_search to a plugin.
17        - Some tuning around plugin execution.
18        - Ticket 126: subdomain plugin tries to guess domain on unqualified hostname.
192010-03-07
20        - Updated user_enum_apache to use Plugins instead of mutate.
21        - Rewrote the macro expanding bit to make it more efficient.
222010-03-03
23        - Mutate 1 now wrapped into nikto_tests and doesn't take up anywhere near the amount of memory!
242010-02-28
25        - Starting to deprecate mutate by replacing with plugin options. -mutate 2 (passfiles) is now implemented within tests and uses less memory.
262010-02-10
27        - Updated -check_updates to use nfetch instead of fetch
282010-02-09
29        - Updated -Plugins support
302010-02-08
31        - Add filename support to rm_active_content 
32        - Ticket 122: Use db_404_strings as a higher priority
33        - Ticket 122: Cleanup db_404_strings to prevent over-matching
342010-02-05
35        - Added basic support for -D s (scrub, removes some information from the log)
362010-02-04
37        - Match plugin names case-insensitive
38        - Warn if RFIURL is undefined
392010-01-20 Nikto 2.1.1
40        - Ticket 117: Fixed SKIPPORTS
41        - Ticket 116: Moved User-Agent string to nikto.conf
42        - Ticket 116: Added dynamic variables to User-Agent (Testid, Evasion methods)
43        - Ticket 95: Added support for OSVDB, now the fun bit of filling it in
44        - Ticket 111: Basic syntax checks for all databases
45        - Ticket 109: Added an extra optional <ssl /> element to xml output to contain the SSL date. Need to do similar for html, txt and csv
46        - Ticket 106: Shorts authentication being successful if an error is returned
47        - Ticket 107: Support for short reads in LW2.5
48        - Ticket 98: If -Format is missed guess the format based on file extension in -output. Default is none if -output is omitted.
49        - Ticket 96: Multiple index file enhancements for groups and better unique file identification
50        - Ticket 103: <description> content in xml report is now wrapped in CDATA
51        - Ticket 110: Mutate now respects db variables
52        - Ticket 97: Fix for response caching
53        - Ticket 99: Spelling disagreements between Brits and Americans
54        - Added @RFIURL to nikto.conf for a remote file include location, and supporting code.
55        - Added ~2300 RFI tests from the combined RSnake/OSVDB list
56        - Removed NMAP and NMAPOPTS from nikto.conf as it is no longer used/supported
57        - Reporting: simplify xml/html code, fix a bug when a space is in the uri, and load ony needed templates
58        - Enable 2 new LW evasion tacticts (carriage return or binary value as request spacer)
59        - Added support to select plugins via -Plugins and -list-plugins option to list current plugins
60        - Major bug fix for proxy usage
61        - Don't report p3p header as unusual
62        - Various changes to aid future binary db usage for mutates
63        - Various changes to aid future multi-threading
64        - Fix for multiple index files
652009-12-21 nikto.pl
66        - Ticket 100: Fix for reading home directory on Windows
67        - Some new additions to db_realms and db_embedded
682009-08-29 templates/xml* docs/nikto.dtd
69        - Added <statistics /> tag for scan/host statistics
702009-08-25 plugins/db_httpoptions
71        - Ticket 89: - remove TRACE and TRACK from the db
722009-08-19 plugins/nikto_headers
73        - Added test for asp source code disclosure through the Translate header
742009-08-13 plugins/* plugins/nikto_embedded plugins/db_embedded
75        - Various fixes to use nfetch and fix proxy use
76        - New plugin added to identify embedded devices
772009-08-12 plugins/nikto_core
78        - New fetch (nfetch) sub added which uses a local request/result hash. All requests should use this instead of fetch.
79        - Patch to add a URI cache within fetch, can be disabled with -nocache
802009-08-04 plugins/nikto_core
81        - Patch to actually report the URI when it works out a password
82        - Added test for DEBUG HTTP verb
832009-08-03 plugins/nikto.pl
84        - Put in a quick catch for port ranges (e.g. 80-90) if people use the old style of port entries
85        - Put in a simple signal handler to close reporting if a sigint is caught
862009-08-02 plugins/nikto_multiple_index db_multiple_index
87        - Added check for multiple index files for request #16
88        - Turned standard headers into a database file to close off #22
892009-08-01 plugins/* nikto.pl
90        - Fixes for xml reporter to allow multiple hosts
91        - Fixes for html, txt and csv exporters
92        - Tickets 80 and 85
932009-07-31 plugins/* nikto.pl
94        - Fix for ePO agent/HP iLO to not report for each known type of webserver
95        - Big changes to the way nikto assigns targets to remove globals, have deliberately broken nmap scanning and allowing port ranges.
962009-07-20 plugins/nikto_core plugins/nikto_outdated db_tests db_outdated
97        - Fix to ensure that -Tuning works as expected, fixes ticket #84
98        - Fix to add a warning if a web server has been configured to restrict information on its server banner, fixes ticket #66
99        - Minor amendment to lightttpd version to fix ticket #67
100        - Fix to nikto_core to make dbcheck work!
101        - New item for ticket #75
1022009-06-30 plugins/nikto_dictionary_attack
103        - Add plugin to use dirbuster lists with mutate 6 and mutate-options
104        - couple of minor fixes to prevent errors on Windows and exporting as text
1052009-06-27 plugins/nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin
106        - Managled cgiwrap and apache plugins together and allow use of a dictionary (to speed things up). Also made it work with new reporting style
107        - Added -mutate-options switch
1082009-06-15 plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_end
109        - Fixed bug with xml not terminating correctly
1102009-05-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_subdomain.plugin
111        - Added subdomain buteforcer as mutate option 5, thanks to Ryan DewHurst
112        - Added extra tests to pull information if scanning ePO agent or HP WBEM
113        - Added test to recognise a Dell Remote Access Console
114        - Added -no404 switch to disable 404 checking. Warning, this produces a lot of false positives at the moment
1152009-01-10 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
116        - Added fix for #73 to apply multiple variables for tests, supplied by Laurent Licour
117        - Removed test_target function as now done in the nikto_test plugin
118        - Added support for Allow directive in robots.txt
119        - Added exit if cannot connect to a defined proxy
1202008-11-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
121        - Added report phase to plugin runner
1222008-10-09 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
123        - Further tunings to authentication code to simplify it.
1242008-10-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
125        - Altered authentication code to make it simpler.
126        - Now supports NTLM authentication.
1272008-09-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin db_tets
128        - Fixed problem with nikto using authentication provided from the command line. It now adds it to the list of realms.
129        - Added extra test to highlight localstart.asp if it is the default page.
130        - Added tests to identify Ampache.
1312008-09-23 plugins/*.plugin
132        - Added support for conditional recon and scan plugins.
1332008-09-21 plugins/*.plugin
134        - Changes for new plugin running structure; it needs to be finished (conditional plugins and report methods) but it is good enough to release now.
1352008-09-20 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_cgi.plugin nikto.pl plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_host_head.tmpl docs/nikto.dtd
136        - Fixes to ensure nikto produces less perl warnings
137        - Fix for ticket #59: add vhost to xml output
1382008-09-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
139        - Fix for ticket #37
140        - Allow fetch to optionally call LW2::http_fixup_request
141        - Better handling of extra headers within fetch
1422008-09-14 plugins/db_server_msgs plugins/nikto_*.plugin
143        - Update server messages to dynamic database format
144        - Altered all plugins to use a separate RESULTS array for storing results; meaning that it is easier to abstract
145        - Added add_vulnerability method to nikto_core to report vulnerabilities and reduce code size.
146        - Added ability to add an extra hash to fetch() to allow extra headers to be added.
1472008-09-12 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin plugins/db_httpoptions plugins/nikto_favicon plugins/db_favicon
148        - Fix for ticket #38: httpoptions are drawn from a database
149        - Now setup to allow dynamic databases, rather than all being imported by nikto_core at start time
150        - Altered favicon database to use dynamic database
1512008-09-06 plugins/nikto_core.plugin tmpl/htm_close.tmpl
152        - Fix for ticket #53: all plugins now show last mod date
153        - Fix for ticket #51: updated copyright date in HTML
1542008-09-04 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
155        - Ticket 55: introduced by the solution for ticket #44
156        - Ticket 53
1572008-08-12 plugins/db_outdated -- Nikto 2.03
158        - Fix for Jetty to latest version, fixes ticket #49
1592008-08-07 docs/nikto_manual.html
160        - New export of the manual from the docbook
161        - Updated versions in nikto.pl
1622008-08-06 plugins/db_outdated
163        - Added various new versions
1642008-08-05 plugins/db_favicon
165        - Fix for ticket #45
166        - Added favicons for Roku Soundbridge and Ampache
1672008-07-14 plugins/nikto_headers.plugin
168        - Changes to look at non-standard headers
169        - Changes to examine Apache's ETag header
1702008-07-07 nikto.pl plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
171        - Fix for ticket #41 - a rather nasty bug that's been in nikto 2 since its inception; where variables weren't fully expanded.
1722008-07-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
173        - Fix for ticket #11 - change CGIDIRS test so that they're not hardcoded. The reponse codes are now kept in a variable in db_variables
174        - Applied same to enumerating apache users plugin
175        - Fix for ticket #39 - we now check whether getoptions failed, show usage and exit with a code of one. This also means that it will exit gracefully if a parameter is missed out when one is required.
1762008-06-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
177        - Fix for ticket #35 - allow multiple HTTP methods to identify an HTTP server, these are set with the variable CHECKMETHODS in config.txt
178        - Fix for a bug in the nmap reader where it would ignore the IP address if it nmap didn't return a hostname.
1792008-06-22 plugins/db_tests
180        - Fix for ticket #26 - stop domino tests producing false positives
1812008-06-20 plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
182        - Fix for ticket #30 - ensure that propfind has the right OSVDB tag
1832008-04-22 plugins/nikto_outdated.plugin
184        - Change to allow stop duplication of items when scanning more than one host. Fix for bug 28
1852008-04-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
186        - Change to allow reading of a host list from stdin
187        - Fix for enhancement 10: read from nmap output (only -oG)
1882008-04-15 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
189        - Fixes for bug 25: Unopen ports are now reported
1902008-04-14 templates/htm*
191        - Fixes for bug 24: HTML output is now valid HTML 4.01 Strict
1922008-04-11 nikto.pl
193        - Started using international dates instead of the weird US format
194        - Added a fix for bug id 23: allow a range of ports instead of a comma separated list
1952008-04-11 db_outdated
196        - Updated current version of Apache to 2.2.8
19701.06.2008 2.02
198        - Added XML output thanks to the work of Jabra. XML format comes from templates (same as HTML). See the 'templates' dir for more info.
199        - HTML reports changed by Jabra to remove some oddities and remove HTML from items
200        - Fixed non-reporting of non-HTTP ports (or closed ports) when at least one port was HTTP.
201        - Removed experimental knowledge base (KB) code, as XML output is more flexible for long-term scan tracking
202        - Added unique identifiers to all tests from databases, and all tests created in code
203        - Updated documentation
20401.02.2008 nikto_core
205        - Fixed improper parsing of long options (-update, etc.). Thanks to Frank Breedijk for figuring this out.
20612.30.2007 db_servers
207        - Removed as it is not used
20812.19.2007 nikto_msgs.plugin
209        - Add a boundary for regex on versions to cut down false positives
21012.19.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
211        - Added OSVDB ID
21212.18.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
213        - Fix false positive when favicon.ico doesn't exist
21411.22.2007 Nikto 2.01 release
215        - Fix anti ids encoding use. thanks to Francisco Amato
216        - Fix virtual host usage if set via CLI. thanks Jon Hart
217        - Fix Host header restoration when testing for IIS IP leak
218        - Fix for plugindir & templatedir if EXECDIR is set in config.txt, thanks Shiraishi.M and Will Andrews for pointing it out.
219        - Fix count of items--count now accurately reflects the number of items, not just number of vulns. thanks Frank Breedijk
220        - Kick a few more things to KB that should be saved
221        - Added SKIPIDS to config.txt to completely ignore some tests loaded from db_tests. Suggested by Christian Folini.
222        - Enhanced rm_active_content to try to exclude the file/QUERYSTRING requested
223        - Unset the auth header after guessing at it. Thanks Paul Woroshow for reporting the bug.
22411.12.2007 nikto_headers.plugin
225         - Fix internal IP address snarfing for IIS, thanks Frank Breedijk for pointing it out
22611.10.2007 Nikto 2.00 release
227         - Rewrite of nikto_httpoptions.plugin to read the Public header
228         - Fixups to prevent namespace violations in nikto.pl and nikto_core.plugin
229         - Add some normalizations to the -root option variable, suggested by Erik Cabetas
230         - Added -Display with options for suppressing redirects & cookies from being included in output
231         - Added -Tuning options to let users specify what they would like to test, or exclude certain categories
232         - Added config.txt's NMAPOPTS, thanks Sean Lewis for the suggestion
233         - All new HTML report
234         - Bugfix: a found cookie would report for every port/server after it was found
235         - Bugfix: all hosts scanned with all ports if hosts file used
236         - Bugfix: all hosts scanned with port 80 despite what the user wanted
237         - Bugfix: Reverse DNS inet_aton error fix, pointed out by Jason Peel @ Foundstone
238         - Changed auth checking so it will test any directory found, not just /, and removed nikto_realms.plugin as a consequence
239         - Changed scan_database.db format significantly (and name), (and all the code to deal with tests)
240         - Completely new 404 engine which causes less false-positives (see docs)
241         - Created dump_lw_hash instead of dump_request_hash & dump_result_hash
242         - Implemented a knowledge base which (should) store all the gory details of scans... probably use this later ;)
243         - Moved pre-defined variables from config.txt to variables.db so they can be automagically updated. Entries in config.txt are still read.
244         - Removed %CFG, storing vars in %NIKTO instead
245         - Removed -generic
246         - Removed extraneous global vars
247         - Removed load_realms, combined with load_variables
248         - Replaced %CONFIG with %NIKTOCONFIG
249         - Set MAX_WARN to trigger on any response code, skipping 404|403|401|400 to avoid common ones
250         - Added -Single single request mode
251         - Updates to use the RFP's LibWhisker 2.0
252         - Added -Help to show extended help ouput, changed default help screen to be shorter. Suggested by Jericho.
253         - Additional error checking on invalid reverse-dns (Paul Woroshow)
254         - Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
255         - Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from Erik Cabetas
256         - Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
257         - Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
258         - Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
259         - Bugfix: more 'half dead host' scanning issues resolved with Jericho. LW is much pickier now about calling http_close
260         - Added error if -F specified without -o, from Erik Cabetas
261         - Bugfix: server category match no longer matches partial strings, from Erik Cabetas
262         - Bugfix: mis-pasted line, pointed to by Erik Cabetas
263         - Send all errors to STDERR
264         - Added -config option to specify a config file, thanks to Pavel Kankovsky
265         - fixed regex issue on banner. thanks Alexander Ehlert for pointing it out
266         - All other plugins updated for v2 changes
267         - Added favicon.ico hash checking
268         - ... gobs more
26902.06.2004 nikto_core.plugin 1.21
270        - Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
271        - Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from from Erik Cabetas
272        - Removed duplicate bit of code, from Erik Cabetas
273        - Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
274        - Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
275        - Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
27612.17.2003
277        nikto_core.plugin 1.20
278         - Fixed BID links, thanks Richard Tortorella for the report.
27910.27.2003 Nikto 1.32 release
280        nikto_core.plugin 1.19
281         - Removed unecessary 'use IO::Socket' call from resolve()
282         - Removed unecessary counters
283         - Replaced some slow foreach counters
284         - Moved proxy_check earlier, before port_scan, so it will be set first
285         - Removed -allcgi option in favor of -CGIdir, which can specify to test 'all', 'none' or a specific directory.
286         - Bugfix: testing through proxy by making sure host name is set instead of ip, thanks to Fabrice Annic for the catch
287         - Bugfix: a regex/logic/if error in test_target, thanks Pavel Kankovsky for the bug report. 401/302 messages will now report regardless of test/pass fail.
288         - Bugfix: -dbcheck now identifies duplicates without relying on message text, thanks Jericho / Attrition.org for pointing this out
289        nikto.pl        1.12
290         - Rearranged order of get_banner & setup so that it would be called right
291        nikto_headers.plugin    1.08
292         - Added DAAP header check
29310.02.2003
294        nikto_core.plugin 1.18
295         - Fixed get_banner to properly handle multi host/port scans
29610.01.2003
297        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.12
298         - Fixed improper matching in version evals, reported by Paul Bakker
299
30009.30.2003
301        nikto_core.plugin 1.17
302         - Reordered loop code to make -f scans faster.
303         - Added a skip for "(Win32)" in the version updates back to cirt.net
304        nikto_outdated.plugin   1.11
305         - Stripping () from version strings
30609.24.2003  Nikto 1.31 release
307        nikto_core.plugin 1.16
308         - Fixed a bug in resolve() that may prevent name lookups when host files used
309         - Fixed a bug in resolve() where scan would exit if 1 name resolution from host file failed
310         - Changed set_targets so that if the -h value exists as a file it reads that instead of resolving it as a name. This eliminates need for .csv or .txt file name endings.
311         - Added auto or semi-auto update of version strings to CIRT.net. This is done through a simple GET request. Controlled via config.txt's UPDATES variable.
312           *ABSOLUTELY NO* server info is sent... only versions from HTTP headers, i.e. "Apache/4.0". Thanks to Jericho for feedback/ideas.
313         - Added a host counter output at end & for every 10 hosts
314         - Set CHANGES.txt download only on *code* updates, not DBs
315         - Added MAX_WARN to config.txt for warning level on OK/Moved messages, thanks Jericho for the suggestion.
316         - Added PROMPTS to config.txt to allow user control of prompting--good for unattended scans
317         - Added a regex test to dbcheck() better catch errors in server_msgs.db
318         - Thanks again to Jericho for many updated tests/information.
319         - Cleaned up port scan code
320         - Fixed/improved scanning through proxies
321        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.09
322         - Added support for sending updates of version strings to CIRT.net. See nikto_core.plugin version 1.15 notes.
323    LW.pm - 1.8
324         - Updated to LW.pm v1.8, see the change log included with it (www.wiretrip.net/rfp/).
325    nikto.pl - 1.10
326         - Implemented versioning on nikto.pl (!), many changes to support core 1.15
327         - Put 'require LW.pm' down *after* we know where it is.. duh. Thanks J Barber (ussysadmin.com) for the suggestion. Also changed it 'require' vs 'use' so in the future I can update it, if necessary.
328         - Hosts are now tested in the same order as the appear in an input file
32908.18.2003
330        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.08
331         - Fixed nasty regex bug in the version eval, and made more efficient. Pointed out by fr0stman, thx Zeno for assistance
33207.22.2003
333        nikto_headers.plugin 1.07
334         - Added Host header back after delete in IIS Content-Location check. Thanks to Abdi Ponce for the bug report & debug.
335        nikto_httpoptions.plugin        1.04
336         - Changed PROPPATCH, TRACK, TRACE messages. Changed PROPFIND message, thanks to Jericho for tracking down some good info on it.  Added SEARCH message.
337        nikto_core.plugin 1.14
338         - Added <title> tags to the HTML output for browser-neatness
339         - Removed a stray debug print
34007.03.2003
341         - Thanks to Jeremy Bae for many Jeus Webserver tests.
34206.29.2003
343        nikto_core.plugin 1.13
344         - changed some &function calls to function() to keep $_ from being passed down another level..  thanks to zeno for the heads-up.
345        nikto_headers.plugin 1.05
346         - fixed the IIS4 content-location check as it had a tendency to fail miserably...
34706.29.2003
348        nikto_core.plugin 1.12
349         - changed output of dump_request to be more like normal request text
35006.29.2003
351        nikto_core.plugin 1.11
352         - bug fix for scanning through proxies
35306.19.2003
354        nikto_core.plugin 1.10
355         - added 'csv' to file formats in -help output (doh!)
356         - minor speedups
35706.17.2003
358        nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin   1.02
359         - Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
360         - Major rewrite for speed improvements
361        nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin  1.01
362         - Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
363         - Major rewrite for speed improvements
36406.16.2003
365        nikto_core.plugin 1.09
366         - dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins are in the order file
367         - dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins have properly named sub calls
368         - update option enhanced: retrieves updated CHANGES.txt file with code updates
369         - Bugfix: resolve() did not properly catch invalid IP addresses. Reported by Rick Tortorella.
37006.12.2003
371        nikto_core.plugin 1.08
372         - Removed iprint() entirely (finally)
373         - Made "Needs Auth" links active in HTML output
37405.30.2003
375        nikto_core.plugin 1.07
376         - Bugfix:
37705.30.2003
378        nikto_core.plugin 1.06
379         - Added number of elapsed seconds to final host/port output
380         - Bugfix: Changed CAN/CVE link to point to cve.mitre.org instead of ICAT
381         - Bugfix: Duplicate port 80 in nmap options if -p not specified but 80 specified in hosts file
38205.28.2003
383        nikto_core.plugin 1.05
384         - Bugfix: -update code prevented automatic updates. Found & fixed by Keith Young. Also reported by Paul Worshaw.
38505.27.2003
386        Nikto 1.30 release
387    General changes
388          - removed nikto_google.plugin entirely (may add better plugin later)
389          - major "under the hood" changes to make things easier to maintain, read & modify
390          - killed as many global vars as I could stand in favor of a few global hashes (CLI input, etc.)
391          - added $CURRENT_HOST_ID and $CURRENT_PORT as globals--these are the pointers to "where you are" (mostly as in $TARGETS)
392          - added the ability to have basic conditional items for tests, i.e. "200!index" to designate a response of "200" but the
393            content does not contain "index" (suggested by Paul Woroshow).
394          - added -V option, which displays versions of all code files & databases (suggested by Jericho)
395          - specifying -ssl now forces *all ports* on *all servers* to use ssl.  best that can be done for now.
396          - added multi-host support via a text file with port specification in the file or via CLI
397          - all new save file routines
398          - unbuffered file output to keep partial/cancelled run data
399          - removed the -w option in favor of -F with multiple formats
400          - added support for NTLM authentication
401          - added cgiwrap plugin
402        nikto_core.plugin 1.05
403        - Many updates to support multiple host scans
404        - Added UA for update agents
405        - Changed all %SERVER hash refs to either %CLI or %TARGETS
406        - Removed %BANNERS (now in %TARGETS)
407        - Added set_targets() to handle various target input methods
408        - Bugfix: non-SSL ports not found after first SSL port found on a host
409        - Bugfix: authentication realms were not checked with the proper root if -r was specified on the CLI
410        - Bugfix: can't call 'fprint' if core plugin is not found (duh!). Found by Erwin Paternotte.
411        nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin 1.00
412        - added
413        nikto_mutate.plugin     1.05
414        - change for using %CLI
415        nikto_passfiles.plugin  1.01
416        - change for using %CLI
417        nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin   1.01
418        - change for using %CLI
419        - renamed from 'nikto_userenum.plugin'
420        nikto_msgs.plugin       1.03
421        - minor changes for multi-host support
422        plugins_order.txt       1.03
423        - removed nikto_google.plugin
42402.23.2003     
425        nikto_core.plugin       1.04
426        - Added a work around for servers that answer with blank www-authenticate headers with invalid id/pass combos
427        nikto_realms.plugin 1.00
428        - Added to distro
429        realms.db 1.00
430        - Added to distro
431        plugins_order.txt       1.02
432        - Added nikto_realms.plugin
43301.22.2003
434        nikto_httpoptions.plugin 1.03   
435        - standardized wording, added TRACE option, added more description to WebDAV msgs (thanks Jericho at attrition.org).
43601.22.2003
437        nikto_core.plugin 1.03 
438        - fixed a bug with matching proper server categories, thanks to Paul Woroshow.
43901.17.2003
440        nikto_core.plugin 1.02 
441        - fixed the GetOptions only looking for "-gener" instead of "-generic", thanks to Michel Arboi
44201.02.2003
443        nikto_core.plugin 1.01 
444        - fixed proxy authentication not prompting for -update option
44501.01.2003
446        Nikto 1.23
447        - added nikto_plugin_order.txt to force plugin order to something we want rather than alpha
448        - added nikto_core.plugin & removed most functions from nikto.pl
449        - added -cookies option
450        - enhanced db syntax error checking (spurred by syntax problems Thomas Reinke found)
451        - started using the LW 1.6 libraries
452        - fixed infinite loop output problem (no longer wrapping long lines)
453        - removed usage from saved output (too long)
454        - remove nikto_frontpage.plugin and put checks in scan_database.db
455        - moved server categories from scan_database.db to servers.db
456        - got rid of the leading "c," requirement from scan_database.db
457        - added STATIC-COOKIE config item as suggested by Eyal Udassin
458        - made CLI options case sensitive (to support more options, hosts files, etc)
459        - added Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a's Apache user enumeration plugin
460        - added -r (-root) file prepend as suggested by Eyal Udassin
461        - many DB typo fixes from Jay Swofford
462        - fixed a regex bug in nikto_robots.plugin and nikto_apacheusers.plugin
463        - new update location (path) to better support upgrades that don't effect db syntax
46408.21.2002
465        Nikto 1.21     
466        - Fixed all the proxy code--none of it was working due to where it was set in the initialization.
467        - Added -update to the help output. Not sure why it wasn't there.
46808.12.2002
469        Nikto 1.20
470        - Re-packaged to take out a testing line from LW.pm. Thanks to D Rhoades for the catch
47108.11.2002
472        Nikto 1.20     
473        - Moved all mutate options to plugins
474        - Added password file mutate plugin
475        - Added better error messages if problems arise
476        - Test for false-positives on all CGI directories
477        - Added -useproxy CLI
478        - Printing SSL certs the server accepts
479        - Fixed port sorting if -f is used
480        - Forked 1.20DCX edition for DefCon 10 CD: difference is only output
481        - Fixed a bug where "findonly" was referenced as "findports" (thanks J DePriest)
482        - Added properly wrapped text output in saved files
48305.25.2002     
484        Nikto 1.100     
485        - stopped nikto from dying if no config.txt file found 
486        - added Apache user enumeration plugin
487        - added robots.txt plugin
488        - set false-positive message to display at end of run as well as during
48904.23.2002     
490        Nikto 1.10BETA_3       
491        - fixed CAN/CVE links, added BID/CA/MS links (suggested by Jericho).
492        - prints total number of 'issues' found (suggested by Jericho).
493        - fixed proxy usage in the cirt.net update function.
494        - updated to use LW 1.4, which fixes an SSL infinite loop problem.
495        - fixed 401 auth suppression (broken in beta 2).
496        - added robots plugin to examine robots.txt & add items found to the mutate check
49703.31.2002
498        Nikto 1.10BETA_2       
499        - fixed the config.txt DEFAULTHTTPVER variable setting so it really works
500        - made proxy_check run only once per session
501        - removed all reference to "nikto" in the scan_database.db
50203.23.2002     
503        Nikto 1.10BETA_1
504        - renamed plugins from .pl to .plugin, just for clarity. but they're still perl files
505        - allowed nikto.pl to update plugins the same as .db files
506        - usage of LW 1.2
507        - countless "under the hood" type things
508        - lowercase-incoming-headers to more easily handle case sensitive nonsense
509        - compartmentalized a LOT more code to make things easier to read
510        - created config.txt file configuration w/o midifying nikto.pl itself
511        - added user_scan_database.db so that it won't get ovwr-written if the user adds checks
512        - enabled RFP's LibWhisker anti-ids options
513        - change "check," to "c," in scan_database, just to save a little bandwidth on cirt.net :)
514        - added plugin to check HTTP methods
515        - created a 'mutate' mode for really brute force finding stuff on servers
516        - added the ability to set default CLI options via config file
517        - added PLUGINDIR config variable
518        - added plugin to check other HTTP headers (just x-powered-by for now)
519        - added ability for nikto to auto-determine ssl v non-ssl on a port
520        - added port scanning ability (with or without nmap)
521        - added ability to send message via the update script's versions.txt file. I don't know why, but it may  be handy to let folks know if a new beta is out, or something.
522        - implemented the virtual host headers as patched by Pasi Eronen
52301.17.2002
524        Nikto 1.018
525        - Added /mpcgi/ to the @CGIDIRS array based on some suggestions.
526        - Fixed a bug in the auth_check function (thanks RFP), and cleaned up error reporting on failed auths
52701.12.2002     
528        Nikto 1.017
529        - Fixed a bug where the data portion of a request did not reset to null after some checks (thanks to Phil Brass for pointing me at it & letting me test against his server).
53001.10.2002
531        Nikto 1.016
532        - Add dump_*hash functions
533        - Added pause (-x) in scan loop
534        - Fixed a bug which caused a major slowdown
535        - Added load_conf for setup for configuration files (future)
536        - Fixed http vs. https links in output files
53701.08.2002
538        Nikto 1.015
539        - Fixed a bug (?) in Libwhisker PR4 (will check v1 code...)
540        - Corrected an error which caused a few false-positives (404 really IS not found :)
54101.07.2002     
542        Nikto 1.014
543        - Removed comment filtering from lines in scan_database.db to accommodate SSI includes
544        - Fixed quoting removal for data portions in checks (so " is valid).
54501.06.2002
546        Nikto 1.013     
547        - Made major globabl variable changes, moved tons of them to hashes
548        - Wrote some basic plugin writing documentation & added 'docs' directory
54901.03.2002
550        Nikto 1.012
551        - Added extended output for scan archival reasons (suggested by Steve Saady)
552        - Changed host auth failure to a warning, not stoppage
553        - Added "data" portion to scan_database.db
554        - Added @IP and @HOSTNAME substitutions for scan_database.db checks (will be replaced by actual IP/hostname)
555        - in case they are needed in the future.
556        - Added JUNK() to scan_database.db checks to facilitate future buffer-overflows (non-DoS), and future DoS plugins
557        - Added Proxy-agent as valid the same as Server result strings
558        - Changed -l to -n ("nolookup") to be more accurate
55901.02.2002
560        Nikto 1.011
561        - Added proxy auth for db update requests (oops).
562        - Started .xxx version numbering scheme to make life easier
563        - Fixed href tags in HTM output (< and > encoding and target host/ip)
564        - Added "caseless" WWW-Authenticate finding (for iPlanet Proxy)
56512.31.2001
566        Nikto 1.01
567        - Added regex to remove comments from scan_database.db in case they ever exist
568        - Fixed extra 'Host:' line being sent to server (duh).
569        - Fixed non 'GET' request data posting (duh).
570        - Added -timeout option
57112.27.2001     
572        Nikto 1.00
573        - Finalized beta version for release
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