Effective Web Discovery & Web Vulnerability Analysis tool.
Whatweb is the perfect name for this tool. Simply it answers the question, “What is that Website?” Whatweb can identify all sorts of information about a live website, like:
Platform
CMS platform
Type of Script
Webserver Platform
IP address, Country
900+ Plugins & their libraries used
Server Headers, Cookies and a lot more.
Whatweb is the perfect name for this tool. Simply it answers the question, “What is that Website?” Whatweb can identify all sorts of information about a live website, like:
Platform
CMS platform
Type of Script
Webserver Platform
IP address, Country
900+ Plugins & their libraries used
Server Headers, Cookies and a lot more.
Whatweb offers both passive scanning and aggressive testing. Passive scanning, just extracts data from http headers simulating a normal visit. Aggressive options get more deeper with recursion & various types of queries & identifies all technologies just like a vulnerability scanner. So a pentester can use this tool as both a recon tool & vulnerability scanner. There are a various other features like proxy support, scan tuning, scanning a range of IPs, spidering etc.
