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Web Application Security Scanners (or Web Application Vulnerability Scanners) are tools designed to automatically scan web applications for vulnerabilities.
These tools work as black-box analyzer; meaning that, unlike Source Code Scanners, they don't access the source code and then, need to detect the vulnerabilities by performing attacks.
== Some Instances ==
=== Commercial tools ===
* [http://www.acunetix.com Acunetix WVS] by Acunetix
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* [http://wapiti.sourceforge.net Wapiti] by Nicolas Surribas
* [http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebScarab_Project WebScarab] by Rogan Dawes of Aspect Security (OWASP Project)
= Web Application Vulnerabilities Scanner projects =
* The [http://webappsec.org WASC] is starting a Web Application Security Scanner Evaluation Criteria (WASSEC) project
* The NIST is also running a Web Application Secuity Scanner Evaluation project in the [http://samate.nist.gov SAMATE] project
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