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Acunetix

Acunetix is one of the most popular and recognized web application vulnerability scanners in the industry. It's currently one of the leading vulnerability scanners used among Fortune 500 companies. Acunetix is designed to deliver both advanced XSS and SQL injection attacks by scanning a target website or web server.

To start using Acunetix, please observe the following steps:

Go to https://www.acunetix.com/vulnerability-scanner/download/ and register for a trial version. Acunetix is a commercial product, but we are able to acquire a trial version for our exercise.
After completing the registration, you'll be presented with the following screen:

Download the Linux version as we'll be using it on our attacker machine, Kali Linux. ...

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