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Fix for #127, set default report parameter to 500 for nikto_tests

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12010-06-15
2        - Fix for #127: dav methods are treated specially and reported all at once
3        - Update nikto.conf to switch tests to always have the (report:500) parameter
42010-06-10
5        - Updates to read known headers on the fly, rather than make requests
6          for them
72010-05-29
8        - Ticket 156: Update system couldn't update nikto_core.plugin
9        - Ticket 152: HTTP Version set in nikto.conf over-ridden
102010-05-27
11        - Fixed a bug with the order of parameters in hooks (broke parameters being passed to some plugins)
12        - Added the parameter "report" to tests plugin to report when completed x number of tests
132010-05-25
14        - Ticket 147: Grab HTTP information on the fly, deprecate get_banner
15        - Stop Whisker producing an error when talking HTTP to HTTPS during port_check
162010-05-11
17        - Tickets 132 and 153: Properly check for HTTP and HTTPS ports in cache.
182010-05-06
19        - Ticket 136: Moved set_scan_items to only run once, should speed things up with multiple targets
202010-04-12
21        - Ticket 144: Cleaned up map_codes to use general rules, still needs some for redirection
22        - Ticket 145: Added OSVDB 0 to orphan items in db_tests
232010-04-11
24        - Ticket 125: fetch is dead, long live nfetch
25        - Moved URI error handling and reporting result to nfetch, rather than being in nikto_tests (Ticket 139, partial)
26        - Ticket 141: pre-compile RE in content_search to give some speed-up
272010-04-10
28        - Merged apacheusers and apache_enum_users together
29        - Add facillity for a plugin to inform which options it can take
302010-04-09
31        - Ticket 137: Added -ask to override nikto.conf's UPDATES value (same options)
322010-04-01
33        - Ticket 134: Added documentation of -config to usage_short
342010-03-26
35        - Added nbe output plugin written by Frank Breedijk
362010-03-15
37        - Ticket 130: Added -D E to show HTTP errors, otherwise suppress.
38        - Ticket 129: Change references for config.txt to nikto.conf.
392010-03-10
40        - Moved do_auth to a postfetch plugin.
412010-03-09
42        - Removed dead code from fetch().
43        - Optimizations in nfetch(), nikto.pl, & elsewhere.
44        - Added support for prefetch and postfetch hooks.
45        - Moved content_search to a plugin.
46        - Some tuning around plugin execution.
47        - Ticket 126: subdomain plugin tries to guess domain on unqualified hostname.
482010-03-07
49        - Updated user_enum_apache to use Plugins instead of mutate.
50        - Rewrote the macro expanding bit to make it more efficient.
512010-03-03
52        - Mutate 1 now wrapped into nikto_tests and doesn't take up anywhere near the amount of memory!
532010-02-28
54        - Starting to deprecate mutate by replacing with plugin options. -mutate 2 (passfiles) is now implemented within tests and uses less memory.
552010-02-10
56        - Updated -check_updates to use nfetch instead of fetch
572010-02-09
58        - Updated -Plugins support
592010-02-08
60        - Add filename support to rm_active_content 
61        - Ticket 122: Use db_404_strings as a higher priority
62        - Ticket 122: Cleanup db_404_strings to prevent over-matching
632010-02-05
64        - Added basic support for -D s (scrub, removes some information from the log)
652010-02-04
66        - Match plugin names case-insensitive
67        - Warn if RFIURL is undefined
682010-01-20 Nikto 2.1.1
69        - Ticket 117: Fixed SKIPPORTS
70        - Ticket 116: Moved User-Agent string to nikto.conf
71        - Ticket 116: Added dynamic variables to User-Agent (Testid, Evasion methods)
72        - Ticket 95: Added support for OSVDB, now the fun bit of filling it in
73        - Ticket 111: Basic syntax checks for all databases
74        - 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
75        - Ticket 106: Shorts authentication being successful if an error is returned
76        - Ticket 107: Support for short reads in LW2.5
77        - Ticket 98: If -Format is missed guess the format based on file extension in -output. Default is none if -output is omitted.
78        - Ticket 96: Multiple index file enhancements for groups and better unique file identification
79        - Ticket 103: <description> content in xml report is now wrapped in CDATA
80        - Ticket 110: Mutate now respects db variables
81        - Ticket 97: Fix for response caching
82        - Ticket 99: Spelling disagreements between Brits and Americans
83        - Added @RFIURL to nikto.conf for a remote file include location, and supporting code.
84        - Added ~2300 RFI tests from the combined RSnake/OSVDB list
85        - Removed NMAP and NMAPOPTS from nikto.conf as it is no longer used/supported
86        - Reporting: simplify xml/html code, fix a bug when a space is in the uri, and load ony needed templates
87        - Enable 2 new LW evasion tacticts (carriage return or binary value as request spacer)
88        - Added support to select plugins via -Plugins and -list-plugins option to list current plugins
89        - Major bug fix for proxy usage
90        - Don't report p3p header as unusual
91        - Various changes to aid future binary db usage for mutates
92        - Various changes to aid future multi-threading
93        - Fix for multiple index files
942009-12-21 nikto.pl
95        - Ticket 100: Fix for reading home directory on Windows
96        - Some new additions to db_realms and db_embedded
972009-08-29 templates/xml* docs/nikto.dtd
98        - Added <statistics /> tag for scan/host statistics
992009-08-25 plugins/db_httpoptions
100        - Ticket 89: - remove TRACE and TRACK from the db
1012009-08-19 plugins/nikto_headers
102        - Added test for asp source code disclosure through the Translate header
1032009-08-13 plugins/* plugins/nikto_embedded plugins/db_embedded
104        - Various fixes to use nfetch and fix proxy use
105        - New plugin added to identify embedded devices
1062009-08-12 plugins/nikto_core
107        - New fetch (nfetch) sub added which uses a local request/result hash. All requests should use this instead of fetch.
108        - Patch to add a URI cache within fetch, can be disabled with -nocache
1092009-08-04 plugins/nikto_core
110        - Patch to actually report the URI when it works out a password
111        - Added test for DEBUG HTTP verb
1122009-08-03 plugins/nikto.pl
113        - Put in a quick catch for port ranges (e.g. 80-90) if people use the old style of port entries
114        - Put in a simple signal handler to close reporting if a sigint is caught
1152009-08-02 plugins/nikto_multiple_index db_multiple_index
116        - Added check for multiple index files for request #16
117        - Turned standard headers into a database file to close off #22
1182009-08-01 plugins/* nikto.pl
119        - Fixes for xml reporter to allow multiple hosts
120        - Fixes for html, txt and csv exporters
121        - Tickets 80 and 85
1222009-07-31 plugins/* nikto.pl
123        - Fix for ePO agent/HP iLO to not report for each known type of webserver
124        - Big changes to the way nikto assigns targets to remove globals, have deliberately broken nmap scanning and allowing port ranges.
1252009-07-20 plugins/nikto_core plugins/nikto_outdated db_tests db_outdated
126        - Fix to ensure that -Tuning works as expected, fixes ticket #84
127        - Fix to add a warning if a web server has been configured to restrict information on its server banner, fixes ticket #66
128        - Minor amendment to lightttpd version to fix ticket #67
129        - Fix to nikto_core to make dbcheck work!
130        - New item for ticket #75
1312009-06-30 plugins/nikto_dictionary_attack
132        - Add plugin to use dirbuster lists with mutate 6 and mutate-options
133        - couple of minor fixes to prevent errors on Windows and exporting as text
1342009-06-27 plugins/nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin
135        - Managled cgiwrap and apache plugins together and allow use of a dictionary (to speed things up). Also made it work with new reporting style
136        - Added -mutate-options switch
1372009-06-15 plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_end
138        - Fixed bug with xml not terminating correctly
1392009-05-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_subdomain.plugin
140        - Added subdomain buteforcer as mutate option 5, thanks to Ryan DewHurst
141        - Added extra tests to pull information if scanning ePO agent or HP WBEM
142        - Added test to recognise a Dell Remote Access Console
143        - Added -no404 switch to disable 404 checking. Warning, this produces a lot of false positives at the moment
1442009-01-10 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
145        - Added fix for #73 to apply multiple variables for tests, supplied by Laurent Licour
146        - Removed test_target function as now done in the nikto_test plugin
147        - Added support for Allow directive in robots.txt
148        - Added exit if cannot connect to a defined proxy
1492008-11-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
150        - Added report phase to plugin runner
1512008-10-09 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
152        - Further tunings to authentication code to simplify it.
1532008-10-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
154        - Altered authentication code to make it simpler.
155        - Now supports NTLM authentication.
1562008-09-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin db_tets
157        - Fixed problem with nikto using authentication provided from the command line. It now adds it to the list of realms.
158        - Added extra test to highlight localstart.asp if it is the default page.
159        - Added tests to identify Ampache.
1602008-09-23 plugins/*.plugin
161        - Added support for conditional recon and scan plugins.
1622008-09-21 plugins/*.plugin
163        - Changes for new plugin running structure; it needs to be finished (conditional plugins and report methods) but it is good enough to release now.
1642008-09-20 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_cgi.plugin nikto.pl plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_host_head.tmpl docs/nikto.dtd
165        - Fixes to ensure nikto produces less perl warnings
166        - Fix for ticket #59: add vhost to xml output
1672008-09-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
168        - Fix for ticket #37
169        - Allow fetch to optionally call LW2::http_fixup_request
170        - Better handling of extra headers within fetch
1712008-09-14 plugins/db_server_msgs plugins/nikto_*.plugin
172        - Update server messages to dynamic database format
173        - Altered all plugins to use a separate RESULTS array for storing results; meaning that it is easier to abstract
174        - Added add_vulnerability method to nikto_core to report vulnerabilities and reduce code size.
175        - Added ability to add an extra hash to fetch() to allow extra headers to be added.
1762008-09-12 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin plugins/db_httpoptions plugins/nikto_favicon plugins/db_favicon
177        - Fix for ticket #38: httpoptions are drawn from a database
178        - Now setup to allow dynamic databases, rather than all being imported by nikto_core at start time
179        - Altered favicon database to use dynamic database
1802008-09-06 plugins/nikto_core.plugin tmpl/htm_close.tmpl
181        - Fix for ticket #53: all plugins now show last mod date
182        - Fix for ticket #51: updated copyright date in HTML
1832008-09-04 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
184        - Ticket 55: introduced by the solution for ticket #44
185        - Ticket 53
1862008-08-12 plugins/db_outdated -- Nikto 2.03
187        - Fix for Jetty to latest version, fixes ticket #49
1882008-08-07 docs/nikto_manual.html
189        - New export of the manual from the docbook
190        - Updated versions in nikto.pl
1912008-08-06 plugins/db_outdated
192        - Added various new versions
1932008-08-05 plugins/db_favicon
194        - Fix for ticket #45
195        - Added favicons for Roku Soundbridge and Ampache
1962008-07-14 plugins/nikto_headers.plugin
197        - Changes to look at non-standard headers
198        - Changes to examine Apache's ETag header
1992008-07-07 nikto.pl plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
200        - Fix for ticket #41 - a rather nasty bug that's been in nikto 2 since its inception; where variables weren't fully expanded.
2012008-07-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
202        - 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
203        - Applied same to enumerating apache users plugin
204        - 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.
2052008-06-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
206        - Fix for ticket #35 - allow multiple HTTP methods to identify an HTTP server, these are set with the variable CHECKMETHODS in config.txt
207        - Fix for a bug in the nmap reader where it would ignore the IP address if it nmap didn't return a hostname.
2082008-06-22 plugins/db_tests
209        - Fix for ticket #26 - stop domino tests producing false positives
2102008-06-20 plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
211        - Fix for ticket #30 - ensure that propfind has the right OSVDB tag
2122008-04-22 plugins/nikto_outdated.plugin
213        - Change to allow stop duplication of items when scanning more than one host. Fix for bug 28
2142008-04-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
215        - Change to allow reading of a host list from stdin
216        - Fix for enhancement 10: read from nmap output (only -oG)
2172008-04-15 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
218        - Fixes for bug 25: Unopen ports are now reported
2192008-04-14 templates/htm*
220        - Fixes for bug 24: HTML output is now valid HTML 4.01 Strict
2212008-04-11 nikto.pl
222        - Started using international dates instead of the weird US format
223        - Added a fix for bug id 23: allow a range of ports instead of a comma separated list
2242008-04-11 db_outdated
225        - Updated current version of Apache to 2.2.8
22601.06.2008 2.02
227        - Added XML output thanks to the work of Jabra. XML format comes from templates (same as HTML). See the 'templates' dir for more info.
228        - HTML reports changed by Jabra to remove some oddities and remove HTML from items
229        - Fixed non-reporting of non-HTTP ports (or closed ports) when at least one port was HTTP.
230        - Removed experimental knowledge base (KB) code, as XML output is more flexible for long-term scan tracking
231        - Added unique identifiers to all tests from databases, and all tests created in code
232        - Updated documentation
23301.02.2008 nikto_core
234        - Fixed improper parsing of long options (-update, etc.). Thanks to Frank Breedijk for figuring this out.
23512.30.2007 db_servers
236        - Removed as it is not used
23712.19.2007 nikto_msgs.plugin
238        - Add a boundary for regex on versions to cut down false positives
23912.19.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
240        - Added OSVDB ID
24112.18.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
242        - Fix false positive when favicon.ico doesn't exist
24311.22.2007 Nikto 2.01 release
244        - Fix anti ids encoding use. thanks to Francisco Amato
245        - Fix virtual host usage if set via CLI. thanks Jon Hart
246        - Fix Host header restoration when testing for IIS IP leak
247        - Fix for plugindir & templatedir if EXECDIR is set in config.txt, thanks Shiraishi.M and Will Andrews for pointing it out.
248        - Fix count of items--count now accurately reflects the number of items, not just number of vulns. thanks Frank Breedijk
249        - Kick a few more things to KB that should be saved
250        - Added SKIPIDS to config.txt to completely ignore some tests loaded from db_tests. Suggested by Christian Folini.
251        - Enhanced rm_active_content to try to exclude the file/QUERYSTRING requested
252        - Unset the auth header after guessing at it. Thanks Paul Woroshow for reporting the bug.
25311.12.2007 nikto_headers.plugin
254         - Fix internal IP address snarfing for IIS, thanks Frank Breedijk for pointing it out
25511.10.2007 Nikto 2.00 release
256         - Rewrite of nikto_httpoptions.plugin to read the Public header
257         - Fixups to prevent namespace violations in nikto.pl and nikto_core.plugin
258         - Add some normalizations to the -root option variable, suggested by Erik Cabetas
259         - Added -Display with options for suppressing redirects & cookies from being included in output
260         - Added -Tuning options to let users specify what they would like to test, or exclude certain categories
261         - Added config.txt's NMAPOPTS, thanks Sean Lewis for the suggestion
262         - All new HTML report
263         - Bugfix: a found cookie would report for every port/server after it was found
264         - Bugfix: all hosts scanned with all ports if hosts file used
265         - Bugfix: all hosts scanned with port 80 despite what the user wanted
266         - Bugfix: Reverse DNS inet_aton error fix, pointed out by Jason Peel @ Foundstone
267         - Changed auth checking so it will test any directory found, not just /, and removed nikto_realms.plugin as a consequence
268         - Changed scan_database.db format significantly (and name), (and all the code to deal with tests)
269         - Completely new 404 engine which causes less false-positives (see docs)
270         - Created dump_lw_hash instead of dump_request_hash & dump_result_hash
271         - Implemented a knowledge base which (should) store all the gory details of scans... probably use this later ;)
272         - Moved pre-defined variables from config.txt to variables.db so they can be automagically updated. Entries in config.txt are still read.
273         - Removed %CFG, storing vars in %NIKTO instead
274         - Removed -generic
275         - Removed extraneous global vars
276         - Removed load_realms, combined with load_variables
277         - Replaced %CONFIG with %NIKTOCONFIG
278         - Set MAX_WARN to trigger on any response code, skipping 404|403|401|400 to avoid common ones
279         - Added -Single single request mode
280         - Updates to use the RFP's LibWhisker 2.0
281         - Added -Help to show extended help ouput, changed default help screen to be shorter. Suggested by Jericho.
282         - Additional error checking on invalid reverse-dns (Paul Woroshow)
283         - Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
284         - Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from Erik Cabetas
285         - Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
286         - Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
287         - Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
288         - Bugfix: more 'half dead host' scanning issues resolved with Jericho. LW is much pickier now about calling http_close
289         - Added error if -F specified without -o, from Erik Cabetas
290         - Bugfix: server category match no longer matches partial strings, from Erik Cabetas
291         - Bugfix: mis-pasted line, pointed to by Erik Cabetas
292         - Send all errors to STDERR
293         - Added -config option to specify a config file, thanks to Pavel Kankovsky
294         - fixed regex issue on banner. thanks Alexander Ehlert for pointing it out
295         - All other plugins updated for v2 changes
296         - Added favicon.ico hash checking
297         - ... gobs more
29802.06.2004 nikto_core.plugin 1.21
299        - Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
300        - Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from from Erik Cabetas
301        - Removed duplicate bit of code, from Erik Cabetas
302        - Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
303        - Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
304        - Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
30512.17.2003
306        nikto_core.plugin 1.20
307         - Fixed BID links, thanks Richard Tortorella for the report.
30810.27.2003 Nikto 1.32 release
309        nikto_core.plugin 1.19
310         - Removed unecessary 'use IO::Socket' call from resolve()
311         - Removed unecessary counters
312         - Replaced some slow foreach counters
313         - Moved proxy_check earlier, before port_scan, so it will be set first
314         - Removed -allcgi option in favor of -CGIdir, which can specify to test 'all', 'none' or a specific directory.
315         - Bugfix: testing through proxy by making sure host name is set instead of ip, thanks to Fabrice Annic for the catch
316         - 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.
317         - Bugfix: -dbcheck now identifies duplicates without relying on message text, thanks Jericho / Attrition.org for pointing this out
318        nikto.pl        1.12
319         - Rearranged order of get_banner & setup so that it would be called right
320        nikto_headers.plugin    1.08
321         - Added DAAP header check
32210.02.2003
323        nikto_core.plugin 1.18
324         - Fixed get_banner to properly handle multi host/port scans
32510.01.2003
326        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.12
327         - Fixed improper matching in version evals, reported by Paul Bakker
328
32909.30.2003
330        nikto_core.plugin 1.17
331         - Reordered loop code to make -f scans faster.
332         - Added a skip for "(Win32)" in the version updates back to cirt.net
333        nikto_outdated.plugin   1.11
334         - Stripping () from version strings
33509.24.2003  Nikto 1.31 release
336        nikto_core.plugin 1.16
337         - Fixed a bug in resolve() that may prevent name lookups when host files used
338         - Fixed a bug in resolve() where scan would exit if 1 name resolution from host file failed
339         - 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.
340         - 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.
341           *ABSOLUTELY NO* server info is sent... only versions from HTTP headers, i.e. "Apache/4.0". Thanks to Jericho for feedback/ideas.
342         - Added a host counter output at end & for every 10 hosts
343         - Set CHANGES.txt download only on *code* updates, not DBs
344         - Added MAX_WARN to config.txt for warning level on OK/Moved messages, thanks Jericho for the suggestion.
345         - Added PROMPTS to config.txt to allow user control of prompting--good for unattended scans
346         - Added a regex test to dbcheck() better catch errors in server_msgs.db
347         - Thanks again to Jericho for many updated tests/information.
348         - Cleaned up port scan code
349         - Fixed/improved scanning through proxies
350        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.09
351         - Added support for sending updates of version strings to CIRT.net. See nikto_core.plugin version 1.15 notes.
352    LW.pm - 1.8
353         - Updated to LW.pm v1.8, see the change log included with it (www.wiretrip.net/rfp/).
354    nikto.pl - 1.10
355         - Implemented versioning on nikto.pl (!), many changes to support core 1.15
356         - 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.
357         - Hosts are now tested in the same order as the appear in an input file
35808.18.2003
359        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.08
360         - Fixed nasty regex bug in the version eval, and made more efficient. Pointed out by fr0stman, thx Zeno for assistance
36107.22.2003
362        nikto_headers.plugin 1.07
363         - Added Host header back after delete in IIS Content-Location check. Thanks to Abdi Ponce for the bug report & debug.
364        nikto_httpoptions.plugin        1.04
365         - Changed PROPPATCH, TRACK, TRACE messages. Changed PROPFIND message, thanks to Jericho for tracking down some good info on it.  Added SEARCH message.
366        nikto_core.plugin 1.14
367         - Added <title> tags to the HTML output for browser-neatness
368         - Removed a stray debug print
36907.03.2003
370         - Thanks to Jeremy Bae for many Jeus Webserver tests.
37106.29.2003
372        nikto_core.plugin 1.13
373         - changed some &function calls to function() to keep $_ from being passed down another level..  thanks to zeno for the heads-up.
374        nikto_headers.plugin 1.05
375         - fixed the IIS4 content-location check as it had a tendency to fail miserably...
37606.29.2003
377        nikto_core.plugin 1.12
378         - changed output of dump_request to be more like normal request text
37906.29.2003
380        nikto_core.plugin 1.11
381         - bug fix for scanning through proxies
38206.19.2003
383        nikto_core.plugin 1.10
384         - added 'csv' to file formats in -help output (doh!)
385         - minor speedups
38606.17.2003
387        nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin   1.02
388         - Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
389         - Major rewrite for speed improvements
390        nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin  1.01
391         - Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
392         - Major rewrite for speed improvements
39306.16.2003
394        nikto_core.plugin 1.09
395         - dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins are in the order file
396         - dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins have properly named sub calls
397         - update option enhanced: retrieves updated CHANGES.txt file with code updates
398         - Bugfix: resolve() did not properly catch invalid IP addresses. Reported by Rick Tortorella.
39906.12.2003
400        nikto_core.plugin 1.08
401         - Removed iprint() entirely (finally)
402         - Made "Needs Auth" links active in HTML output
40305.30.2003
404        nikto_core.plugin 1.07
405         - Bugfix:
40605.30.2003
407        nikto_core.plugin 1.06
408         - Added number of elapsed seconds to final host/port output
409         - Bugfix: Changed CAN/CVE link to point to cve.mitre.org instead of ICAT
410         - Bugfix: Duplicate port 80 in nmap options if -p not specified but 80 specified in hosts file
41105.28.2003
412        nikto_core.plugin 1.05
413         - Bugfix: -update code prevented automatic updates. Found & fixed by Keith Young. Also reported by Paul Worshaw.
41405.27.2003
415        Nikto 1.30 release
416    General changes
417          - removed nikto_google.plugin entirely (may add better plugin later)
418          - major "under the hood" changes to make things easier to maintain, read & modify
419          - killed as many global vars as I could stand in favor of a few global hashes (CLI input, etc.)
420          - added $CURRENT_HOST_ID and $CURRENT_PORT as globals--these are the pointers to "where you are" (mostly as in $TARGETS)
421          - added the ability to have basic conditional items for tests, i.e. "200!index" to designate a response of "200" but the
422            content does not contain "index" (suggested by Paul Woroshow).
423          - added -V option, which displays versions of all code files & databases (suggested by Jericho)
424          - specifying -ssl now forces *all ports* on *all servers* to use ssl.  best that can be done for now.
425          - added multi-host support via a text file with port specification in the file or via CLI
426          - all new save file routines
427          - unbuffered file output to keep partial/cancelled run data
428          - removed the -w option in favor of -F with multiple formats
429          - added support for NTLM authentication
430          - added cgiwrap plugin
431        nikto_core.plugin 1.05
432        - Many updates to support multiple host scans
433        - Added UA for update agents
434        - Changed all %SERVER hash refs to either %CLI or %TARGETS
435        - Removed %BANNERS (now in %TARGETS)
436        - Added set_targets() to handle various target input methods
437        - Bugfix: non-SSL ports not found after first SSL port found on a host
438        - Bugfix: authentication realms were not checked with the proper root if -r was specified on the CLI
439        - Bugfix: can't call 'fprint' if core plugin is not found (duh!). Found by Erwin Paternotte.
440        nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin 1.00
441        - added
442        nikto_mutate.plugin     1.05
443        - change for using %CLI
444        nikto_passfiles.plugin  1.01
445        - change for using %CLI
446        nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin   1.01
447        - change for using %CLI
448        - renamed from 'nikto_userenum.plugin'
449        nikto_msgs.plugin       1.03
450        - minor changes for multi-host support
451        plugins_order.txt       1.03
452        - removed nikto_google.plugin
45302.23.2003     
454        nikto_core.plugin       1.04
455        - Added a work around for servers that answer with blank www-authenticate headers with invalid id/pass combos
456        nikto_realms.plugin 1.00
457        - Added to distro
458        realms.db 1.00
459        - Added to distro
460        plugins_order.txt       1.02
461        - Added nikto_realms.plugin
46201.22.2003
463        nikto_httpoptions.plugin 1.03   
464        - standardized wording, added TRACE option, added more description to WebDAV msgs (thanks Jericho at attrition.org).
46501.22.2003
466        nikto_core.plugin 1.03 
467        - fixed a bug with matching proper server categories, thanks to Paul Woroshow.
46801.17.2003
469        nikto_core.plugin 1.02 
470        - fixed the GetOptions only looking for "-gener" instead of "-generic", thanks to Michel Arboi
47101.02.2003
472        nikto_core.plugin 1.01 
473        - fixed proxy authentication not prompting for -update option
47401.01.2003
475        Nikto 1.23
476        - added nikto_plugin_order.txt to force plugin order to something we want rather than alpha
477        - added nikto_core.plugin & removed most functions from nikto.pl
478        - added -cookies option
479        - enhanced db syntax error checking (spurred by syntax problems Thomas Reinke found)
480        - started using the LW 1.6 libraries
481        - fixed infinite loop output problem (no longer wrapping long lines)
482        - removed usage from saved output (too long)
483        - remove nikto_frontpage.plugin and put checks in scan_database.db
484        - moved server categories from scan_database.db to servers.db
485        - got rid of the leading "c," requirement from scan_database.db
486        - added STATIC-COOKIE config item as suggested by Eyal Udassin
487        - made CLI options case sensitive (to support more options, hosts files, etc)
488        - added Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a's Apache user enumeration plugin
489        - added -r (-root) file prepend as suggested by Eyal Udassin
490        - many DB typo fixes from Jay Swofford
491        - fixed a regex bug in nikto_robots.plugin and nikto_apacheusers.plugin
492        - new update location (path) to better support upgrades that don't effect db syntax
49308.21.2002
494        Nikto 1.21     
495        - Fixed all the proxy code--none of it was working due to where it was set in the initialization.
496        - Added -update to the help output. Not sure why it wasn't there.
49708.12.2002
498        Nikto 1.20
499        - Re-packaged to take out a testing line from LW.pm. Thanks to D Rhoades for the catch
50008.11.2002
501        Nikto 1.20     
502        - Moved all mutate options to plugins
503        - Added password file mutate plugin
504        - Added better error messages if problems arise
505        - Test for false-positives on all CGI directories
506        - Added -useproxy CLI
507        - Printing SSL certs the server accepts
508        - Fixed port sorting if -f is used
509        - Forked 1.20DCX edition for DefCon 10 CD: difference is only output
510        - Fixed a bug where "findonly" was referenced as "findports" (thanks J DePriest)
511        - Added properly wrapped text output in saved files
51205.25.2002     
513        Nikto 1.100     
514        - stopped nikto from dying if no config.txt file found 
515        - added Apache user enumeration plugin
516        - added robots.txt plugin
517        - set false-positive message to display at end of run as well as during
51804.23.2002     
519        Nikto 1.10BETA_3       
520        - fixed CAN/CVE links, added BID/CA/MS links (suggested by Jericho).
521        - prints total number of 'issues' found (suggested by Jericho).
522        - fixed proxy usage in the cirt.net update function.
523        - updated to use LW 1.4, which fixes an SSL infinite loop problem.
524        - fixed 401 auth suppression (broken in beta 2).
525        - added robots plugin to examine robots.txt & add items found to the mutate check
52603.31.2002
527        Nikto 1.10BETA_2       
528        - fixed the config.txt DEFAULTHTTPVER variable setting so it really works
529        - made proxy_check run only once per session
530        - removed all reference to "nikto" in the scan_database.db
53103.23.2002     
532        Nikto 1.10BETA_1
533        - renamed plugins from .pl to .plugin, just for clarity. but they're still perl files
534        - allowed nikto.pl to update plugins the same as .db files
535        - usage of LW 1.2
536        - countless "under the hood" type things
537        - lowercase-incoming-headers to more easily handle case sensitive nonsense
538        - compartmentalized a LOT more code to make things easier to read
539        - created config.txt file configuration w/o midifying nikto.pl itself
540        - added user_scan_database.db so that it won't get ovwr-written if the user adds checks
541        - enabled RFP's LibWhisker anti-ids options
542        - change "check," to "c," in scan_database, just to save a little bandwidth on cirt.net :)
543        - added plugin to check HTTP methods
544        - created a 'mutate' mode for really brute force finding stuff on servers
545        - added the ability to set default CLI options via config file
546        - added PLUGINDIR config variable
547        - added plugin to check other HTTP headers (just x-powered-by for now)
548        - added ability for nikto to auto-determine ssl v non-ssl on a port
549        - added port scanning ability (with or without nmap)
550        - 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.
551        - implemented the virtual host headers as patched by Pasi Eronen
55201.17.2002
553        Nikto 1.018
554        - Added /mpcgi/ to the @CGIDIRS array based on some suggestions.
555        - Fixed a bug in the auth_check function (thanks RFP), and cleaned up error reporting on failed auths
55601.12.2002     
557        Nikto 1.017
558        - 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).
55901.10.2002
560        Nikto 1.016
561        - Add dump_*hash functions
562        - Added pause (-x) in scan loop
563        - Fixed a bug which caused a major slowdown
564        - Added load_conf for setup for configuration files (future)
565        - Fixed http vs. https links in output files
56601.08.2002
567        Nikto 1.015
568        - Fixed a bug (?) in Libwhisker PR4 (will check v1 code...)
569        - Corrected an error which caused a few false-positives (404 really IS not found :)
57001.07.2002     
571        Nikto 1.014
572        - Removed comment filtering from lines in scan_database.db to accommodate SSI includes
573        - Fixed quoting removal for data portions in checks (so " is valid).
57401.06.2002
575        Nikto 1.013     
576        - Made major globabl variable changes, moved tons of them to hashes
577        - Wrote some basic plugin writing documentation & added 'docs' directory
57801.03.2002
579        Nikto 1.012
580        - Added extended output for scan archival reasons (suggested by Steve Saady)
581        - Changed host auth failure to a warning, not stoppage
582        - Added "data" portion to scan_database.db
583        - Added @IP and @HOSTNAME substitutions for scan_database.db checks (will be replaced by actual IP/hostname)
584        - in case they are needed in the future.
585        - Added JUNK() to scan_database.db checks to facilitate future buffer-overflows (non-DoS), and future DoS plugins
586        - Added Proxy-agent as valid the same as Server result strings
587        - Changed -l to -n ("nolookup") to be more accurate
58801.02.2002
589        Nikto 1.011
590        - Added proxy auth for db update requests (oops).
591        - Started .xxx version numbering scheme to make life easier
592        - Fixed href tags in HTM output (< and > encoding and target host/ip)
593        - Added "caseless" WWW-Authenticate finding (for iPlanet Proxy)
59412.31.2001
595        Nikto 1.01
596        - Added regex to remove comments from scan_database.db in case they ever exist
597        - Fixed extra 'Host:' line being sent to server (duh).
598        - Fixed non 'GET' request data posting (duh).
599        - Added -timeout option
60012.27.2001     
601        Nikto 1.00
602        - Finalized beta version for release
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