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Ticket 228: Add client SSL certificate support. Thanks to monnerat for code submission!

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2        - Ticket 228: Add client SSL certificate support. Thanks to monnerat for code submission!
3        - Ticket 226: Add GMT offset to time outputs
4        - Ticket 224: Space in robots.txt kills scanner
5        - Ticket 220: Certificate wildcard matching incorrect
6        - Ticket 217: Add -IgnoreCode option to allow db_404_strings' @CODE at the command line
7        - Ticket 202: -maxtime maximum execution time per host (seconds)
8        - Keep tokens from getting into %db_extensions, thanks to Erik Cabetas
9        - Fix vhost not being set properly, thanks to Brian Poole
10        - Fix crash on invalid regex chars in robots.txt (dis)allow lines
112011-06-14
12        - Fix condition where match_1 or match_1_or are 4xx response code
13        - Fix condition where blank prefix added via change_variables
142011-03-30
15        - Ticket 208: Strengthen IP matching in cookies (nikto_cookies.plugin)
16        - Ticket 207: -findonly emulation now enables reporting plugins and screen output mimics versions < 2.1.4
17        - Ticket 199: Allow user to specify SSL library to be used by LW2
18        - Ticket 198: Add -Userdbs to run only user databases. 'all' loads all user databases and no standard. 'tests' or nothing only loads udb_tests instead of db_tests
19        - Fix date_disp for incorrect mday increment, thanks noop.0352.ja for notification
20        - Print web ports found in gnmap input files, thanks @mubix
212011-02-20 Nikto 2.1.4 release
22        - Tickets 148, 160, 188: XML CHANGES:
23                - Removed 'cyphers' from DTD (was never populated via the code)
24                - The 'niktoscan' element is now included (was in schema, but unused)
25                - 'niktoscan' new variables: scanstart, scanend, scanelapsed
26                - <statistics hoststotal="#TEMPL_NIKTO_HOSTS_TESTED" /> removed from templates (duplicate of hoststest)
27                - <!ATTLIST statistics hoststotal CDATA #IMPLIED> removed from DTD
28                - Removed duplicate <niktoscan> element from xml_summary.tpl
29                - Properly close <niktoscan>
30                - Incremented nxmlversion to 1.1
31        - Tickets 202, 203: Rewrote set_targets to not accidentally collapse targets, which fixed terminate signal issues
32        - Ticket 201: Rewritten & fixed authorization code work better and make fewer requests
33        - Ticket 195: Update interactive status counts if mutate options are used
34        - Ticket 194: Look for internal IPs in cookies
35        - Ticket 192: Relabel IDS evasion as 'encoding techniques'
36        - Ticket 186: Enable sleep for fractions of seconds
37        - Ticket 185: Make multiple index file output links in html reports
38        - Ticket 184: Fix -root option
39        - Ticket 181: Fix COOKIE set via nikto.conf. Also allow multiple cookies.
40        - Ticket 179: Update docs for -useproxy
41        - Ticket 178: Add -Interactive-off to disable interactivity
42        - Ticket 177: Enable http keep-alive
43        - Ticket 173: Skip current host with 'N' in interactive mode
44        - Ticket 169: Allow regular expressions in db_tests
45        - Ticket 155: -findonly is deprecated in favor of -Plugins "@@NONE" (-f will replicate this functionality)
46        - Ticket 82: Auth is now checked per realm, not per resource
47        - Fix parsing of nmap greppable output so that any port descr matching http is checked. Thanks Moses Hernandez & @mubix for
48                reporting & testing.
49        - Fix a potential div by zero error
50        - Fix a potential for false positives or negatives with version matches
51        - Various cleanups in nikto_report_xml.plugin and nikto_report_html.plugin
52        - Not all udb* files were loaded properly
53        - Server name not properly printed in update/submission output
54        - Created $mark->{'components'} to store server build items instead of @BUILDITEMS
55        - Variable consolidation & memory usage cleanup
56        - Move message on -root from notices to target host info (suggestion from YGN)
57        - Automatically escape invalid regexes in databases at run-time, so no dying
58        - Validate regex field syntax on -dbcheck
59        - Move -root option to %mark so it works on a per-host level if passed via URI
60        - Added nikto_ssl.plugin to check cert's CN vs hostname
61        - Add basic retry on error in nfetch()
62        - Change how db_404_strings are used by moving where they are checked--should reduce FP
63        - Fix missing url sent to rm_active_content during error mapping--should prevent many FPs
64        - Actually check for code-based nocache flag in cache_add and cache_fetch
65        - Make nikto_multiple_index.plugin only look at 200 responses
662010-09-06 Nikto 2.1.3 release
67        - Ticket 164: Error when proxy starts to give 502
68        - Ticket 165: Don't show incorrect # of items checked in -findonly
69        - Ticket 166: Allow interactive pause
70        - Ticket 167: Update manual
71        - Ticket 168: Fix scan not working behind proxy when domain can't resolve
72        - Ticket 170: Implemented MSF output
73        - Ticket 171: Allow proxy to be specified on command line
74        - Fix incorrect running of some plugins
75        - Interactive status report gives guess of time remaining
76        - Don't print duplicate findings (such as indexing)
77        - Minor standardization stuff
78        - Documentation updates
79        - Fixed broken cache
80        - Cleaned up status report code
81        - Version output now shows status of SSL and XMLRPC availability
822010-07-07 Nikto 2.1.2 release
83        - Ticket 8: Interactive scan status.
84        - Ticket 122: Cleanup db_404_strings to prevent over-matching.
85        - Ticket 122: Use db_404_strings as a higher priority.
86        - Ticket 125: fetch is dead, long live nfetch!
87        - Ticket 126: subdomain plugin tries to guess domain on unqualified hostname.
88        - Ticket 127: dav methods are treated specially and reported all at once.
89        - Ticket 129: Change references for config.txt to nikto.conf.
90        - Ticket 130: Added -D E to show HTTP errors, otherwise suppress.
91        - Ticket 132: Properly check for HTTP and HTTPS ports in cache.
92        - Ticket 133: Regular expression matching causes errors. Removed char_escape and some other
93                regexs in favor of the faster quotemeta(). Also set many regexs to non-capturing for speed.
94        - Ticket 134: Added documentation of -config to usage_short.
95        - Ticket 136: Moved set_scan_items to only run once, should speed things up with multiple targets.
96        - Ticket 137: Added -ask to override nikto.conf's UPDATES value (same options).
97        - Ticket 139: Partial fix: Moved URI error handling and reporting result to nfetch, rather than being in nikto_tests.
98        - Ticket 141: pre-compile RE in content_search to give some speed-up.
99        - Ticket 142: Enhancement to allow easier addition of hooks.
100        - Ticket 144: Cleaned up map_codes to use general rules, still needs some for redirection.
101        - Ticket 145: Added OSVDB 0 to orphan items in db_tests.
102        - Ticket 146: Paritial fix: with new "start" hook which is run at the start after target enumeration.
103        - Ticket 147: Grab HTTP information on the fly, deprecate get_banner.
104        - Ticket 150: Special characters in XML output.
105        - Ticket 152: HTTP Version set in nikto.conf over-ridden.
106        - Ticket 153: Properly check for HTTP and HTTPS ports in cache.
107        - Ticket 156: Update system couldn't update nikto_core.plugin.
108        - Ticket 163: Scan details not appearing in XML reports.
109        - Allow changing certain config settings during scans.
110        - Optimized rm_active_content() a little by shuffling code and reducing some mem copies/regexs. Needs more work.
111        - Update nikto.conf to switch tests to always have the (report:500) parameter.
112        - Updates to read known headers on the fly, rather than make requests for them.
113        - Fixed a bug with the order of parameters in hooks (broke parameters being passed to some plugins).
114        - Added the parameter "report" to tests plugin to report when completed x number of tests.
115        - Stop LibWhisker producing an error when talking HTTP to HTTPS during port_check.
116        - Merged apacheusers and apache_enum_users.
117        - Add facillity for a plugin to inform which options it can take.
118        - Added nbe output plugin which written by Frank Breedijk of the Seccubus project.
119        - Moved do_auth to a postfetch plugin.
120        - Removed dead code from fetch().
121        - Optimizations in nfetch(), nikto.pl, & elsewhere.
122        - Added support for prefetch and postfetch hooks.
123        - Moved content_search to a plugin.
124        - Some tuning around plugin execution.
125        - Updated user_enum_apache to use Plugins instead of mutate.
126        - Rewrote the macro expanding bit to make it more efficient.
127        - Mutate 1 now wrapped into nikto_tests and doesn't take up anywhere near the amount of memory!
128        - Starting to deprecate mutate by replacing with plugin options. -mutate 2 (passfiles) is now implemented within tests and uses less memory.
129        - Updated -check_updates to use nfetch instead of fetch.
130        - Updated -Plugins support.
131        - Add filename support to rm_active_content.
132        - Added basic support for -D s (scrub, removes some information from the log).
133        - Match plugin names case-insensitive.
134        - Warn if RFIURL is undefined.
1352010-01-20 Nikto 2.1.1
136        - Ticket 117: Fixed SKIPPORTS
137        - Ticket 116: Moved User-Agent string to nikto.conf
138        - Ticket 116: Added dynamic variables to User-Agent (Testid, Evasion methods)
139        - Ticket 95: Added support for OSVDB, now the fun bit of filling it in
140        - Ticket 111: Basic syntax checks for all databases
141        - 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
142        - Ticket 106: Shorts authentication being successful if an error is returned
143        - Ticket 107: Support for short reads in LW2.5
144        - Ticket 98: If -Format is missed guess the format based on file extension in -output. Default is none if -output is omitted.
145        - Ticket 96: Multiple index file enhancements for groups and better unique file identification
146        - Ticket 103: <description> content in xml report is now wrapped in CDATA
147        - Ticket 110: Mutate now respects db variables
148        - Ticket 97: Fix for response caching
149        - Ticket 99: Spelling disagreements between Brits and Americans
150        - Added @RFIURL to nikto.conf for a remote file include location, and supporting code.
151        - Added ~2300 RFI tests from the combined RSnake/OSVDB list
152        - Removed NMAP and NMAPOPTS from nikto.conf as it is no longer used/supported
153        - Reporting: simplify xml/html code, fix a bug when a space is in the uri, and load ony needed templates
154        - Enable 2 new LW evasion tacticts (carriage return or binary value as request spacer)
155        - Added support to select plugins via -Plugins and -list-plugins option to list current plugins
156        - Major bug fix for proxy usage
157        - Don't report p3p header as unusual
158        - Various changes to aid future binary db usage for mutates
159        - Various changes to aid future multi-threading
160        - Fix for multiple index files
1612009-12-21 nikto.pl
162        - Ticket 100: Fix for reading home directory on Windows
163        - Some new additions to db_realms and db_embedded
1642009-08-29 templates/xml* docs/nikto.dtd
165        - Added <statistics /> tag for scan/host statistics
1662009-08-25 plugins/db_httpoptions
167        - Ticket 89: - remove TRACE and TRACK from the db
1682009-08-19 plugins/nikto_headers
169        - Added test for asp source code disclosure through the Translate header
1702009-08-13 plugins/* plugins/nikto_embedded plugins/db_embedded
171        - Various fixes to use nfetch and fix proxy use
172        - New plugin added to identify embedded devices
1732009-08-12 plugins/nikto_core
174        - New fetch (nfetch) sub added which uses a local request/result hash. All requests should use this instead of fetch.
175        - Patch to add a URI cache within fetch, can be disabled with -nocache
1762009-08-04 plugins/nikto_core
177        - Patch to actually report the URI when it works out a password
178        - Added test for DEBUG HTTP verb
1792009-08-03 plugins/nikto.pl
180        - Put in a quick catch for port ranges (e.g. 80-90) if people use the old style of port entries
181        - Put in a simple signal handler to close reporting if a sigint is caught
1822009-08-02 plugins/nikto_multiple_index db_multiple_index
183        - Added check for multiple index files for request #16
184        - Turned standard headers into a database file to close off #22
1852009-08-01 plugins/* nikto.pl
186        - Fixes for xml reporter to allow multiple hosts
187        - Fixes for html, txt and csv exporters
188        - Tickets 80 and 85
1892009-07-31 plugins/* nikto.pl
190        - Fix for ePO agent/HP iLO to not report for each known type of webserver
191        - Big changes to the way nikto assigns targets to remove globals, have deliberately broken nmap scanning and allowing port ranges.
1922009-07-20 plugins/nikto_core plugins/nikto_outdated db_tests db_outdated
193        - Fix to ensure that -Tuning works as expected, fixes ticket #84
194        - Fix to add a warning if a web server has been configured to restrict information on its server banner, fixes ticket #66
195        - Minor amendment to lightttpd version to fix ticket #67
196        - Fix to nikto_core to make dbcheck work!
197        - New item for ticket #75
1982009-06-30 plugins/nikto_dictionary_attack
199        - Add plugin to use dirbuster lists with mutate 6 and mutate-options
200        - couple of minor fixes to prevent errors on Windows and exporting as text
2012009-06-27 plugins/nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin
202        - Managled cgiwrap and apache plugins together and allow use of a dictionary (to speed things up). Also made it work with new reporting style
203        - Added -mutate-options switch
2042009-06-15 plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_end
205        - Fixed bug with xml not terminating correctly
2062009-05-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_subdomain.plugin
207        - Added subdomain buteforcer as mutate option 5, thanks to Ryan DewHurst
208        - Added extra tests to pull information if scanning ePO agent or HP WBEM
209        - Added test to recognise a Dell Remote Access Console
210        - Added -no404 switch to disable 404 checking. Warning, this produces a lot of false positives at the moment
2112009-01-10 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
212        - Added fix for #73 to apply multiple variables for tests, supplied by Laurent Licour
213        - Removed test_target function as now done in the nikto_test plugin
214        - Added support for Allow directive in robots.txt
215        - Added exit if cannot connect to a defined proxy
2162008-11-11 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
217        - Added report phase to plugin runner
2182008-10-09 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
219        - Further tunings to authentication code to simplify it.
2202008-10-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin nikto.pl
221        - Altered authentication code to make it simpler.
222        - Now supports NTLM authentication.
2232008-09-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin db_tets
224        - Fixed problem with nikto using authentication provided from the command line. It now adds it to the list of realms.
225        - Added extra test to highlight localstart.asp if it is the default page.
226        - Added tests to identify Ampache.
2272008-09-23 plugins/*.plugin
228        - Added support for conditional recon and scan plugins.
2292008-09-21 plugins/*.plugin
230        - Changes for new plugin running structure; it needs to be finished (conditional plugins and report methods) but it is good enough to release now.
2312008-09-20 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_cgi.plugin nikto.pl plugins/nikto_reports.plugin templates/xml_host_head.tmpl docs/nikto.dtd
232        - Fixes to ensure nikto produces less perl warnings
233        - Fix for ticket #59: add vhost to xml output
2342008-09-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
235        - Fix for ticket #37
236        - Allow fetch to optionally call LW2::http_fixup_request
237        - Better handling of extra headers within fetch
2382008-09-14 plugins/db_server_msgs plugins/nikto_*.plugin
239        - Update server messages to dynamic database format
240        - Altered all plugins to use a separate RESULTS array for storing results; meaning that it is easier to abstract
241        - Added add_vulnerability method to nikto_core to report vulnerabilities and reduce code size.
242        - Added ability to add an extra hash to fetch() to allow extra headers to be added.
2432008-09-12 plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin plugins/db_httpoptions plugins/nikto_favicon plugins/db_favicon
244        - Fix for ticket #38: httpoptions are drawn from a database
245        - Now setup to allow dynamic databases, rather than all being imported by nikto_core at start time
246        - Altered favicon database to use dynamic database
2472008-09-06 plugins/nikto_core.plugin tmpl/htm_close.tmpl
248        - Fix for ticket #53: all plugins now show last mod date
249        - Fix for ticket #51: updated copyright date in HTML
2502008-09-04 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
251        - Ticket 55: introduced by the solution for ticket #44
252        - Ticket 53
2532008-08-12 plugins/db_outdated -- Nikto 2.03
254        - Fix for Jetty to latest version, fixes ticket #49
2552008-08-07 docs/nikto_manual.html
256        - New export of the manual from the docbook
257        - Updated versions in nikto.pl
2582008-08-06 plugins/db_outdated
259        - Added various new versions
2602008-08-05 plugins/db_favicon
261        - Fix for ticket #45
262        - Added favicons for Roku Soundbridge and Ampache
2632008-07-14 plugins/nikto_headers.plugin
264        - Changes to look at non-standard headers
265        - Changes to examine Apache's ETag header
2662008-07-07 nikto.pl plugins/nikto_core.plugin plugins/nikto_reports.plugin
267        - Fix for ticket #41 - a rather nasty bug that's been in nikto 2 since its inception; where variables weren't fully expanded.
2682008-07-02 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
269        - 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
270        - Applied same to enumerating apache users plugin
271        - 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.
2722008-06-24 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
273        - Fix for ticket #35 - allow multiple HTTP methods to identify an HTTP server, these are set with the variable CHECKMETHODS in config.txt
274        - Fix for a bug in the nmap reader where it would ignore the IP address if it nmap didn't return a hostname.
2752008-06-22 plugins/db_tests
276        - Fix for ticket #26 - stop domino tests producing false positives
2772008-06-20 plugins/nikto_httpoptions.plugin
278        - Fix for ticket #30 - ensure that propfind has the right OSVDB tag
2792008-04-22 plugins/nikto_outdated.plugin
280        - Change to allow stop duplication of items when scanning more than one host. Fix for bug 28
2812008-04-16 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
282        - Change to allow reading of a host list from stdin
283        - Fix for enhancement 10: read from nmap output (only -oG)
2842008-04-15 plugins/nikto_core.plugin
285        - Fixes for bug 25: Unopen ports are now reported
2862008-04-14 templates/htm*
287        - Fixes for bug 24: HTML output is now valid HTML 4.01 Strict
2882008-04-11 nikto.pl
289        - Started using international dates instead of the weird US format
290        - Added a fix for bug id 23: allow a range of ports instead of a comma separated list
2912008-04-11 db_outdated
292        - Updated current version of Apache to 2.2.8
29301.06.2008 2.02
294        - Added XML output thanks to the work of Jabra. XML format comes from templates (same as HTML). See the 'templates' dir for more info.
295        - HTML reports changed by Jabra to remove some oddities and remove HTML from items
296        - Fixed non-reporting of non-HTTP ports (or closed ports) when at least one port was HTTP.
297        - Removed experimental knowledge base (KB) code, as XML output is more flexible for long-term scan tracking
298        - Added unique identifiers to all tests from databases, and all tests created in code
299        - Updated documentation
30001.02.2008 nikto_core
301        - Fixed improper parsing of long options (-update, etc.). Thanks to Frank Breedijk for figuring this out.
30212.30.2007 db_servers
303        - Removed as it is not used
30412.19.2007 nikto_msgs.plugin
305        - Add a boundary for regex on versions to cut down false positives
30612.19.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
307        - Added OSVDB ID
30812.18.2007 niko_favicon.plugin
309        - Fix false positive when favicon.ico doesn't exist
31011.22.2007 Nikto 2.01 release
311        - Fix anti ids encoding use. thanks to Francisco Amato
312        - Fix virtual host usage if set via CLI. thanks Jon Hart
313        - Fix Host header restoration when testing for IIS IP leak
314        - Fix for plugindir & templatedir if EXECDIR is set in config.txt, thanks Shiraishi.M and Will Andrews for pointing it out.
315        - Fix count of items--count now accurately reflects the number of items, not just number of vulns. thanks Frank Breedijk
316        - Kick a few more things to KB that should be saved
317        - Added SKIPIDS to config.txt to completely ignore some tests loaded from db_tests. Suggested by Christian Folini.
318        - Enhanced rm_active_content to try to exclude the file/QUERYSTRING requested
319        - Unset the auth header after guessing at it. Thanks Paul Woroshow for reporting the bug.
32011.12.2007 nikto_headers.plugin
321         - Fix internal IP address snarfing for IIS, thanks Frank Breedijk for pointing it out
32211.10.2007 Nikto 2.00 release
323         - Rewrite of nikto_httpoptions.plugin to read the Public header
324         - Fixups to prevent namespace violations in nikto.pl and nikto_core.plugin
325         - Add some normalizations to the -root option variable, suggested by Erik Cabetas
326         - Added -Display with options for suppressing redirects & cookies from being included in output
327         - Added -Tuning options to let users specify what they would like to test, or exclude certain categories
328         - Added config.txt's NMAPOPTS, thanks Sean Lewis for the suggestion
329         - All new HTML report
330         - Bugfix: a found cookie would report for every port/server after it was found
331         - Bugfix: all hosts scanned with all ports if hosts file used
332         - Bugfix: all hosts scanned with port 80 despite what the user wanted
333         - Bugfix: Reverse DNS inet_aton error fix, pointed out by Jason Peel @ Foundstone
334         - Changed auth checking so it will test any directory found, not just /, and removed nikto_realms.plugin as a consequence
335         - Changed scan_database.db format significantly (and name), (and all the code to deal with tests)
336         - Completely new 404 engine which causes less false-positives (see docs)
337         - Created dump_lw_hash instead of dump_request_hash & dump_result_hash
338         - Implemented a knowledge base which (should) store all the gory details of scans... probably use this later ;)
339         - Moved pre-defined variables from config.txt to variables.db so they can be automagically updated. Entries in config.txt are still read.
340         - Removed %CFG, storing vars in %NIKTO instead
341         - Removed -generic
342         - Removed extraneous global vars
343         - Removed load_realms, combined with load_variables
344         - Replaced %CONFIG with %NIKTOCONFIG
345         - Set MAX_WARN to trigger on any response code, skipping 404|403|401|400 to avoid common ones
346         - Added -Single single request mode
347         - Updates to use the RFP's LibWhisker 2.0
348         - Added -Help to show extended help ouput, changed default help screen to be shorter. Suggested by Jericho.
349         - Additional error checking on invalid reverse-dns (Paul Woroshow)
350         - Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
351         - Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from Erik Cabetas
352         - Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
353         - Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
354         - Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
355         - Bugfix: more 'half dead host' scanning issues resolved with Jericho. LW is much pickier now about calling http_close
356         - Added error if -F specified without -o, from Erik Cabetas
357         - Bugfix: server category match no longer matches partial strings, from Erik Cabetas
358         - Bugfix: mis-pasted line, pointed to by Erik Cabetas
359         - Send all errors to STDERR
360         - Added -config option to specify a config file, thanks to Pavel Kankovsky
361         - fixed regex issue on banner. thanks Alexander Ehlert for pointing it out
362         - All other plugins updated for v2 changes
363         - Added favicon.ico hash checking
364         - ... gobs more
36502.06.2004 nikto_core.plugin 1.21
366        - Cleaned up comment/line parsing routines in multiple places, from Erik Cabetas
367        - Tightened some for loops with real values instead of guessing, from from Erik Cabetas
368        - Removed duplicate bit of code, from Erik Cabetas
369        - Addded error message if no host is specified, from Erik Cabetas
370        - Added more robust output file type checking (txt/htm/cvs), from Erik Cabetas
371        - Added more debug statements regarding which CGI directories will be scanned, from Erik Cabatas
37212.17.2003
373        nikto_core.plugin 1.20
374         - Fixed BID links, thanks Richard Tortorella for the report.
37510.27.2003 Nikto 1.32 release
376        nikto_core.plugin 1.19
377         - Removed unecessary 'use IO::Socket' call from resolve()
378         - Removed unecessary counters
379         - Replaced some slow foreach counters
380         - Moved proxy_check earlier, before port_scan, so it will be set first
381         - Removed -allcgi option in favor of -CGIdir, which can specify to test 'all', 'none' or a specific directory.
382         - Bugfix: testing through proxy by making sure host name is set instead of ip, thanks to Fabrice Annic for the catch
383         - 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.
384         - Bugfix: -dbcheck now identifies duplicates without relying on message text, thanks Jericho / Attrition.org for pointing this out
385        nikto.pl        1.12
386         - Rearranged order of get_banner & setup so that it would be called right
387        nikto_headers.plugin    1.08
388         - Added DAAP header check
38910.02.2003
390        nikto_core.plugin 1.18
391         - Fixed get_banner to properly handle multi host/port scans
39210.01.2003
393        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.12
394         - Fixed improper matching in version evals, reported by Paul Bakker
395
39609.30.2003
397        nikto_core.plugin 1.17
398         - Reordered loop code to make -f scans faster.
399         - Added a skip for "(Win32)" in the version updates back to cirt.net
400        nikto_outdated.plugin   1.11
401         - Stripping () from version strings
40209.24.2003  Nikto 1.31 release
403        nikto_core.plugin 1.16
404         - Fixed a bug in resolve() that may prevent name lookups when host files used
405         - Fixed a bug in resolve() where scan would exit if 1 name resolution from host file failed
406         - 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.
407         - 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.
408           *ABSOLUTELY NO* server info is sent... only versions from HTTP headers, i.e. "Apache/4.0". Thanks to Jericho for feedback/ideas.
409         - Added a host counter output at end & for every 10 hosts
410         - Set CHANGES.txt download only on *code* updates, not DBs
411         - Added MAX_WARN to config.txt for warning level on OK/Moved messages, thanks Jericho for the suggestion.
412         - Added PROMPTS to config.txt to allow user control of prompting--good for unattended scans
413         - Added a regex test to dbcheck() better catch errors in server_msgs.db
414         - Thanks again to Jericho for many updated tests/information.
415         - Cleaned up port scan code
416         - Fixed/improved scanning through proxies
417        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.09
418         - Added support for sending updates of version strings to CIRT.net. See nikto_core.plugin version 1.15 notes.
419    LW.pm - 1.8
420         - Updated to LW.pm v1.8, see the change log included with it (www.wiretrip.net/rfp/).
421    nikto.pl - 1.10
422         - Implemented versioning on nikto.pl (!), many changes to support core 1.15
423         - 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.
424         - Hosts are now tested in the same order as the appear in an input file
42508.18.2003
426        nikto_outdated.plugin 1.08
427         - Fixed nasty regex bug in the version eval, and made more efficient. Pointed out by fr0stman, thx Zeno for assistance
42807.22.2003
429        nikto_headers.plugin 1.07
430         - Added Host header back after delete in IIS Content-Location check. Thanks to Abdi Ponce for the bug report & debug.
431        nikto_httpoptions.plugin        1.04
432         - Changed PROPPATCH, TRACK, TRACE messages. Changed PROPFIND message, thanks to Jericho for tracking down some good info on it.  Added SEARCH message.
433        nikto_core.plugin 1.14
434         - Added <title> tags to the HTML output for browser-neatness
435         - Removed a stray debug print
43607.03.2003
437         - Thanks to Jeremy Bae for many Jeus Webserver tests.
43806.29.2003
439        nikto_core.plugin 1.13
440         - changed some &function calls to function() to keep $_ from being passed down another level..  thanks to zeno for the heads-up.
441        nikto_headers.plugin 1.05
442         - fixed the IIS4 content-location check as it had a tendency to fail miserably...
44306.29.2003
444        nikto_core.plugin 1.12
445         - changed output of dump_request to be more like normal request text
44606.29.2003
447        nikto_core.plugin 1.11
448         - bug fix for scanning through proxies
44906.19.2003
450        nikto_core.plugin 1.10
451         - added 'csv' to file formats in -help output (doh!)
452         - minor speedups
45306.17.2003
454        nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin   1.02
455         - Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
456         - Major rewrite for speed improvements
457        nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin  1.01
458         - Bugfix: some user names not tested (zz, zzz, etc.)
459         - Major rewrite for speed improvements
46006.16.2003
461        nikto_core.plugin 1.09
462         - dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins are in the order file
463         - dbcheck option enhanced: check that all plugins have properly named sub calls
464         - update option enhanced: retrieves updated CHANGES.txt file with code updates
465         - Bugfix: resolve() did not properly catch invalid IP addresses. Reported by Rick Tortorella.
46606.12.2003
467        nikto_core.plugin 1.08
468         - Removed iprint() entirely (finally)
469         - Made "Needs Auth" links active in HTML output
47005.30.2003
471        nikto_core.plugin 1.07
472         - Bugfix:
47305.30.2003
474        nikto_core.plugin 1.06
475         - Added number of elapsed seconds to final host/port output
476         - Bugfix: Changed CAN/CVE link to point to cve.mitre.org instead of ICAT
477         - Bugfix: Duplicate port 80 in nmap options if -p not specified but 80 specified in hosts file
47805.28.2003
479        nikto_core.plugin 1.05
480         - Bugfix: -update code prevented automatic updates. Found & fixed by Keith Young. Also reported by Paul Worshaw.
48105.27.2003
482        Nikto 1.30 release
483    General changes
484          - removed nikto_google.plugin entirely (may add better plugin later)
485          - major "under the hood" changes to make things easier to maintain, read & modify
486          - killed as many global vars as I could stand in favor of a few global hashes (CLI input, etc.)
487          - added $CURRENT_HOST_ID and $CURRENT_PORT as globals--these are the pointers to "where you are" (mostly as in $TARGETS)
488          - added the ability to have basic conditional items for tests, i.e. "200!index" to designate a response of "200" but the
489            content does not contain "index" (suggested by Paul Woroshow).
490          - added -V option, which displays versions of all code files & databases (suggested by Jericho)
491          - specifying -ssl now forces *all ports* on *all servers* to use ssl.  best that can be done for now.
492          - added multi-host support via a text file with port specification in the file or via CLI
493          - all new save file routines
494          - unbuffered file output to keep partial/cancelled run data
495          - removed the -w option in favor of -F with multiple formats
496          - added support for NTLM authentication
497          - added cgiwrap plugin
498        nikto_core.plugin 1.05
499        - Many updates to support multiple host scans
500        - Added UA for update agents
501        - Changed all %SERVER hash refs to either %CLI or %TARGETS
502        - Removed %BANNERS (now in %TARGETS)
503        - Added set_targets() to handle various target input methods
504        - Bugfix: non-SSL ports not found after first SSL port found on a host
505        - Bugfix: authentication realms were not checked with the proper root if -r was specified on the CLI
506        - Bugfix: can't call 'fprint' if core plugin is not found (duh!). Found by Erwin Paternotte.
507        nikto_user_enum_cgiwrap.plugin 1.00
508        - added
509        nikto_mutate.plugin     1.05
510        - change for using %CLI
511        nikto_passfiles.plugin  1.01
512        - change for using %CLI
513        nikto_user_enum_apache.plugin   1.01
514        - change for using %CLI
515        - renamed from 'nikto_userenum.plugin'
516        nikto_msgs.plugin       1.03
517        - minor changes for multi-host support
518        plugins_order.txt       1.03
519        - removed nikto_google.plugin
52002.23.2003     
521        nikto_core.plugin       1.04
522        - Added a work around for servers that answer with blank www-authenticate headers with invalid id/pass combos
523        nikto_realms.plugin 1.00
524        - Added to distro
525        realms.db 1.00
526        - Added to distro
527        plugins_order.txt       1.02
528        - Added nikto_realms.plugin
52901.22.2003
530        nikto_httpoptions.plugin 1.03   
531        - standardized wording, added TRACE option, added more description to WebDAV msgs (thanks Jericho at attrition.org).
53201.22.2003
533        nikto_core.plugin 1.03 
534        - fixed a bug with matching proper server categories, thanks to Paul Woroshow.
53501.17.2003
536        nikto_core.plugin 1.02 
537        - fixed the GetOptions only looking for "-gener" instead of "-generic", thanks to Michel Arboi
53801.02.2003
539        nikto_core.plugin 1.01 
540        - fixed proxy authentication not prompting for -update option
54101.01.2003
542        Nikto 1.23
543        - added nikto_plugin_order.txt to force plugin order to something we want rather than alpha
544        - added nikto_core.plugin & removed most functions from nikto.pl
545        - added -cookies option
546        - enhanced db syntax error checking (spurred by syntax problems Thomas Reinke found)
547        - started using the LW 1.6 libraries
548        - fixed infinite loop output problem (no longer wrapping long lines)
549        - removed usage from saved output (too long)
550        - remove nikto_frontpage.plugin and put checks in scan_database.db
551        - moved server categories from scan_database.db to servers.db
552        - got rid of the leading "c," requirement from scan_database.db
553        - added STATIC-COOKIE config item as suggested by Eyal Udassin
554        - made CLI options case sensitive (to support more options, hosts files, etc)
555        - added Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a's Apache user enumeration plugin
556        - added -r (-root) file prepend as suggested by Eyal Udassin
557        - many DB typo fixes from Jay Swofford
558        - fixed a regex bug in nikto_robots.plugin and nikto_apacheusers.plugin
559        - new update location (path) to better support upgrades that don't effect db syntax
56008.21.2002
561        Nikto 1.21     
562        - Fixed all the proxy code--none of it was working due to where it was set in the initialization.
563        - Added -update to the help output. Not sure why it wasn't there.
56408.12.2002
565        Nikto 1.20
566        - Re-packaged to take out a testing line from LW.pm. Thanks to D Rhoades for the catch
56708.11.2002
568        Nikto 1.20     
569        - Moved all mutate options to plugins
570        - Added password file mutate plugin
571        - Added better error messages if problems arise
572        - Test for false-positives on all CGI directories
573        - Added -useproxy CLI
574        - Printing SSL certs the server accepts
575        - Fixed port sorting if -f is used
576        - Forked 1.20DCX edition for DefCon 10 CD: difference is only output
577        - Fixed a bug where "findonly" was referenced as "findports" (thanks J DePriest)
578        - Added properly wrapped text output in saved files
57905.25.2002     
580        Nikto 1.100     
581        - stopped nikto from dying if no config.txt file found 
582        - added Apache user enumeration plugin
583        - added robots.txt plugin
584        - set false-positive message to display at end of run as well as during
58504.23.2002     
586        Nikto 1.10BETA_3       
587        - fixed CAN/CVE links, added BID/CA/MS links (suggested by Jericho).
588        - prints total number of 'issues' found (suggested by Jericho).
589        - fixed proxy usage in the cirt.net update function.
590        - updated to use LW 1.4, which fixes an SSL infinite loop problem.
591        - fixed 401 auth suppression (broken in beta 2).
592        - added robots plugin to examine robots.txt & add items found to the mutate check
59303.31.2002
594        Nikto 1.10BETA_2       
595        - fixed the config.txt DEFAULTHTTPVER variable setting so it really works
596        - made proxy_check run only once per session
597        - removed all reference to "nikto" in the scan_database.db
59803.23.2002     
599        Nikto 1.10BETA_1
600        - renamed plugins from .pl to .plugin, just for clarity. but they're still perl files
601        - allowed nikto.pl to update plugins the same as .db files
602        - usage of LW 1.2
603        - countless "under the hood" type things
604        - lowercase-incoming-headers to more easily handle case sensitive nonsense
605        - compartmentalized a LOT more code to make things easier to read
606        - created config.txt file configuration w/o midifying nikto.pl itself
607        - added user_scan_database.db so that it won't get ovwr-written if the user adds checks
608        - enabled RFP's LibWhisker anti-ids options
609        - change "check," to "c," in scan_database, just to save a little bandwidth on cirt.net :)
610        - added plugin to check HTTP methods
611        - created a 'mutate' mode for really brute force finding stuff on servers
612        - added the ability to set default CLI options via config file
613        - added PLUGINDIR config variable
614        - added plugin to check other HTTP headers (just x-powered-by for now)
615        - added ability for nikto to auto-determine ssl v non-ssl on a port
616        - added port scanning ability (with or without nmap)
617        - 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.
618        - implemented the virtual host headers as patched by Pasi Eronen
61901.17.2002
620        Nikto 1.018
621        - Added /mpcgi/ to the @CGIDIRS array based on some suggestions.
622        - Fixed a bug in the auth_check function (thanks RFP), and cleaned up error reporting on failed auths
62301.12.2002     
624        Nikto 1.017
625        - 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).
62601.10.2002
627        Nikto 1.016
628        - Add dump_*hash functions
629        - Added pause (-x) in scan loop
630        - Fixed a bug which caused a major slowdown
631        - Added load_conf for setup for configuration files (future)
632        - Fixed http vs. https links in output files
63301.08.2002
634        Nikto 1.015
635        - Fixed a bug (?) in Libwhisker PR4 (will check v1 code...)
636        - Corrected an error which caused a few false-positives (404 really IS not found :)
63701.07.2002     
638        Nikto 1.014
639        - Removed comment filtering from lines in scan_database.db to accommodate SSI includes
640        - Fixed quoting removal for data portions in checks (so " is valid).
64101.06.2002
642        Nikto 1.013     
643        - Made major globabl variable changes, moved tons of them to hashes
644        - Wrote some basic plugin writing documentation & added 'docs' directory
64501.03.2002
646        Nikto 1.012
647        - Added extended output for scan archival reasons (suggested by Steve Saady)
648        - Changed host auth failure to a warning, not stoppage
649        - Added "data" portion to scan_database.db
650        - Added @IP and @HOSTNAME substitutions for scan_database.db checks (will be replaced by actual IP/hostname)
651        - in case they are needed in the future.
652        - Added JUNK() to scan_database.db checks to facilitate future buffer-overflows (non-DoS), and future DoS plugins
653        - Added Proxy-agent as valid the same as Server result strings
654        - Changed -l to -n ("nolookup") to be more accurate
65501.02.2002
656        Nikto 1.011
657        - Added proxy auth for db update requests (oops).
658        - Started .xxx version numbering scheme to make life easier
659        - Fixed href tags in HTM output (< and > encoding and target host/ip)
660        - Added "caseless" WWW-Authenticate finding (for iPlanet Proxy)
66112.31.2001
662        Nikto 1.01
663        - Added regex to remove comments from scan_database.db in case they ever exist
664        - Fixed extra 'Host:' line being sent to server (duh).
665        - Fixed non 'GET' request data posting (duh).
666        - Added -timeout option
66712.27.2001     
668        Nikto 1.00
669        - Finalized beta version for release
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