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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition
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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition

by Vijay Kumar Velu, Robert Beggs
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
548 pages
12h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Customizing Nikto and Vega

From Nikto version 2.1.1, the community allowed developers to debug and call specific plugins. The same can be customized accordingly from version 2.1.2. The listing can be done for all the plugins, and then you specify a specific plugin to perform any scan. There are currently around 35 plugins that can be utilized by penetration testers; the following screenshot provides the list of plugins that are currently available in the latest version of Nikto:

For example, if attackers found a banner information as Apache server 2.2.0, Nikto can be customized to run specific plugins only for Apache user enumeration by running ...

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