How To Install wapiti on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wapiti on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is wapiti
wapiti is:
Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your web applications. It performs “black-box” scans, i.e. it does not study the source code of the application but will scan the web pages of the deployed web applications, looking for scripts and forms where it can inject data. Once it gets this list, Wapiti acts like a fuzzer, injecting payloads to see if a script is vulnerable.
Wapiti can detect the following vulnerabilities:
- file handling errors (local and remote include/require, fopen, readfile…)
- database injection (PHP/JSP/ASP SQL Injections and XPath Injections)
- XSS (Cross Site Scripting) injection
- LDAP injection
- command execution detection (eval(), system(), passtru()…)
- CRLF injection (HTTP response splitting, session fixation…)
There are three methods to install wapiti on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wapiti Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wapiti using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wapiti
Install wapiti Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wapiti using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wapiti
Install wapiti Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install wapiti using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wapiti
How To Uninstall wapiti on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the wapiti package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wapiti
Uninstall wapiti And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wapiti and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wapiti
Remove wapiti Configurations and Data
To remove wapiti configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wapiti
Remove wapiti configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wapiti configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wapiti
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wapiti package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
