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Wapiti loads in different modules. By default, all modules are used. You will have to be selective; for Version 2.2.1 on Ubuntu Linux, this causes Wapiti to crash or timeout.
To load in specific modules, use the -m option.
The -m "-all,xss,exec" statement tells Wapiti to ignore all modules except the xss and exec modules.
The exec module is very good at finding 500 errors in Jenkins. This is mostly due to unexpected input, which Jenkins does not handle well. This is purely a cosmetic set of issues. However, if you start to see errors associated with resources such as files or database services, then you should give the issues higher priority and send in bug reports.
The -x option specifies which URLs to ignore. In this case, ...
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