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Re: Nessus XSS Discoveries

Subject: Re: Nessus XSS Discoveries
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:37:37 -0400
On Jun 11, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Christopher Ashby wrote:

For some reason which I'm unable to explain, the Nessus scanner will  
not
detect XSS vulnerabilities in my server.. I'm using Nessus 2.2.10 and
updated the plug-ins last night (registered feed).

What sorts of requests, if any, do you see Nessus making in the web  
server's logs? Is Nessus at least identifying the affected scripts and  
testing its parameters? If so, would I be able to get a packet capture  
taken when you run the scan limited to just the XSS issues?

George
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theall@tenablesecurity.com



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