Updated Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner includes PHP-CGI security Check

Acunetix released update for the Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 (WVS 8) ,includes a number of new scheduler features, a new security check for PHP-CGI, as well as a series of bug fixes.

Acunetix WVS 8 checks if your PHP-CGI installation is vulnerable to remote code execution.

New Features

• Ability to edit scheduled scans. No need for scheduling new scans every time you wish to change a scan setting.
• Amend multiple scheduled scans simultaneously by selecting them and applying the required global changes.
• Save all your scanned results and access them at any time from your scheduler’s scan history. You can also delete your scanned results from the web-based scheduler.
• A new setting has been introduced to configure the maximum number of pages during a crawl.

Improvements

• Improved Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) tests.
• The web-based scheduler has been improved to run better in the latest version of Internet Explorer.
• Enhanced SQL injection tests to reduce the false positives reporting even more.

Bug Fixes

• The scheduled scans can be correctly imported after upgrading to a more recent build of Acunetix WVS 8.
• The false positives settings node can now support changes from multiple instances at the same time.
• Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) Scanner URL edit box is now able to save history.

How to Upgrade to Build 20120508

On starting Acunetix WVS 8, a pop-up window will automatically notify you that a more recent build is available for download. Navigate to the General > Program Updates node in the Tools explorer, click on Download and Install the new build.