Web Applications Assessment Tools: Comparison and Discussion

Abstract

Recently web applications have proliferated rapidly, with the world increasingly dependent on financial transactions, purchasing, billing, education, medicine, and many more. But the security of these applications is worrying because it directly affects the end-user. Therefore, it is necessary to detect security vulnerabilities in those applications that may cause significant user problems. Most commonly used approach to detect those vulnerabilities are assessments tools like web scanners. This paper will focus on usage of these web scanners and their related methodology to detect the various vulnerabilities in web applications and then compare these scanners depending on results. Keywords— Web scanner, SQL Injection, XSS, Vulnerability, Assessment.