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20/02/2020
    Wapiti 3.0.3
    An important work was made to reduce false positives in XSS detections.
    That research involved scanning more than 1 million websites to discover those issues.
    More details here: http://devloop.users.sourceforge.net/index.php?article217/one-crazy-month-of-web-vulnerability-scanning

02/09/2019
    Wapiti 3.0.2
    New XXE module cans end payloads in parameters, query string, file uploads and raw body.
    New module for detection Open Redirect vulnerabilities (header based our HTML meta based or JS based).
    Fixed domain scope scanning.
    Reduced false positives in attack modules (specially time based ones).
    Reduced invalid links generated by js analysis and ignore obviously malformed HTML links.
    Do not crawl CSS files and remove query strings from JS files when crawling.
    Improved and changed existing payloads.
    Improved extracting forms from HTML pages (radio buttons / select, ...)
    Support for more POST enctypes (sending XML or JSON for example, currently only leveraged by mod_xxe)
    --store-session option allow to specify a path where .db and .pkl files are stored.
    --endpoint --internal-endpoint --external-endpoint options to set your own endpoint and receive requests from target
    Authentications options can now be used with wapiti-getcookie.
    Js parser can now deal with HTML comments.
    More comprehensive choices when doing Ctrl+C during scan (eg: 'c' to continue, 'q' to quit)
    Fixed lot of bugs thank to received crash dumps.

11/05/2018
    Wapiti 3.0.1
    New module mod_methods to detect interesting methods which might be allowed by scripts (PUT, PROPFIND, etc)
    New module mod_ssrf to detect Server Side Request Forgery vulnerabilities (requires Internet access)
    Improved mod_xss and mod_permanentxss modules to reduce false positives.
    Changed some XSS payloads for something more visual (banner at top the the webpage).
    Changed bug reporting URL.
    Fixed issue #54 in lamejs JS parser.
    Removed lxml and libxml2 as a dependency. That parser have difficulties to parse exotic encodings.

03/01/2017
    Release of Wapiti 3.0.0

02/01/2018
    Added --list-modules and --resume-crawl options.

23/12/2017
    Ported to Python3.
    Persister rewritten to use sqlite3 databases (for session management).
    Added ascii-art because you know... it's an attack tool so it's required feature.
    Changed output format (stdout) to something more like sqlmap output.
    python-lxml and libxml2 are required dependencies unless you opt-out with --with-html5lib at setup.
    SOCKS5 proxy support is back.
    New -u mandatory option must be use to specify the base URL.
    Added -d (--depth) option to limit the maximum depth of links following.
    Added -H (--header) option to add HTTP headers to every request.
    Added -A (--user-agent) option to set the User-Agent string.
    Added --skip option to skip parameters during attacks.
    Added -S (--scan-force) option to control the ammount of requests sent for attacks.
    Added --max-parameters to not attack URLs anf forms having more than X input parameters.
    Added -l (--level) option to allow attacking query strings without parameters.
    Added --max-scan-time option to stop the scan after the given amount of minutes.
    Added a buster module for directory and file busting.
    Added a Shellshock detection module.
    Added buitin list of well known parameters to skip during attack.
    More control on execution flow when KeyboardInterrupt is triggered.
    Reduced false-positives situations on time-based attacks (mainly blind_sql)
    Replace getopt for argparse.
    Fixed bugs related to obtaining user's locale (issue #20).
    Enhancement to support new CVE notation [issue 37).
    Can now report minor issues (notices) besides anomalies and vulnerabilities.
    Added mod_delay module to report time consuming webpages.
    Renamed some options (should be easier to remember).
    More exec, file, xss payloads.
    Fixed a bug with JSON cookie management for IPv6 addresses and custom ports.
    XSS attack module can escape HTML comments for payload generation.
    Fixed -r issue on URLs having only one parameter.
    No SSL/TLS check by default (--verify-ssl behavior).
    Added a Mutator class for easy payload injection in parameters.
    Rewrote report generators, added Mako as a dependency for HTML reports. Less JS.
    Crash report are send to a website, opt-out with --no-bugreport.
    Improvements on backup, sql and exec modules submitted by Milan Bartos.
    Payload files can now include special flags that will be interpreted by Wapiti.
    wapiti-cookie and wapiti-getcookie were merged in a new wapiti-getcookie tool.


20/10/2013
	Version 2.3.0
	Fixed a colosseum of bugs, especially related to unicode.
	Software is much more stable.
	New report template for HTML (using Kube CSS).
	Using v2.1.5 of Nikto database for mod_nikto.
	Replaced httplib2 with (python-)requests for everything related to HTTP.
	Remove BeautifulSoup from package. It is still required however.
	Core rewrite (PEP8 + more Pythonic)
	New payloads for the backup, XSS, blind SQL, exec and file modules + more
	detection rules.
	So many improvements on lswww (crawler) that I can't make a list here. But
	Wapiti reached 48% on Wivet.
	Wapiti cookie format is now based on JSON.
	Removed SOCKS proxy support (you will have to use a HTTP to SOCKS proxy).
	Added a HTTPResource class for easier module creation.
	Code restructuration for better setup.
	Attack of parameters in query string even for HTTP POST requests.
	Attack on file uploads (injection in file names).
	Simpler (and less buggy) colored output with -c.
	A CURL PoC is given for each vulnerability/anomaly found + raw HTTP
	request representation in reports.
	No more parameter reordering + can handle parameters repetition.
	Added a JSON report generator + fixed the HTML report generator.
	Added an option to not check SSL certificates.
	mod_xss : noscipt tag escaping.
	Can work on parameters that don't have a value in query string.
	mod_crlf is not activated by default anymore (must call it with -m).
	Startings URLs (-s) will be fetched even if out of scope.
	Proxy support for wapiti-getcookie. and wapiti-cookie.
	Attempt to bring an OpenVAS report generator.
	Added an home-made SWF parser to extract URLs from flash files.
	Added an home-made (and more than basic) JS interpreter based on the
	pynarcissus parser. Lot of work still needs to be done on this.
	New logo and webpage at wapiti.sf.net.
	Added german and malaysian translations.
	Added a script to create standalone archive for Windows (with py2exe).

29/12/2009
    Version 2.2.1 (already)
	Bugfixes only
	Fixed a bug in lswww if root url is not given complete.
	Fixed a bug in lswww with a call to BeautifulSoup made on non text files.
	Fixed a bug that occured when verbosity = 2. Unicode error on stderr.
	Check the document's content-type and extension before attacking files on
	the query string.
	Added a timeout check in the nikto module when downloading the database.

28/12/2009
	Version 2.2.0
	Added a manpage.
	Internationalization : translations of Wapiti in spanish and french.
	Options -k and -i allow the scan to be saved and restored later.
	Added option -b to set the scope of the scan based on the root url given.
	Wrote a library to save handle cookies and save them in XML format.
	Modules are now loaded dynamically with a dependency system.
	Rewrote the -m option used to activate / deactivate attack modules.
	New module to search for backup files of scripts on the target webserver.
	New module to search for weakly configured .htaccess.
	New module to search dangerous files based on the Nikto database.
	Differ "raw" XSS from "urlencoded" XSS.
	Updated BeautifulSoup to version 3.0.8.
	Better encoding support for webpages (convert to Unicode)
	Added "resource consumption" as a vulnerability type.
	Fixed bug ID 2779441 "Python Version 2.5 required?"
	Fixed bug with special characters in HTML reports.

05/04/2008
	Added more patterns for file handling vulnerabilities in PHP.
	Added GET_SQL and POST_SQL as modules (-m) for attacks.
	Modifier getcookie.py and cookie.py so they try to get the cookies
	even if cookielib fails.

27/03/2007
	Updated ChangeLogs

26/03/2009
	Fixed bug ID 2433127. Comparison was made with HTTP error codes
	on numeric values but httplib2 return the status code as a string.
	Forbid httplib2 to handle HTTP redirections. Wapiti and lswww will
	take care of this (more checks on urls...)
	Fixed a bug with Blind SQL attacks (the same attack could be launched
	several times)
	Fixed an error in blindSQLPayloads.txt.
	Changed the error message when Wapiti don't get any data from lswww.
	Verifications to be sure blind SQL attacks won't be launched if "standard"
	SQL attacks works.

25/03/2009
	Exported blind SQL payloads from the code. Now in config file
	blindSQLPayloads.txt.
	Set timeout for time-based BSQL attacks to timetout used for HTTP
	requests + 1 second.
	Added Blind SQL as a type of vulnerability in the report generator.
	More verbosity for permanent XSS scan.
	More docstrings.
	Updated the REAME.

24/03/2009
	Added some docstring to the code.
	Removed warnign on alpha code.
	First Blind SQL Injection implementation in Wapiti.
	Fixed some timeout errors.

22/03/2009
	Fixed character encoding error in sql injection module.
	Changed the md5 and sha1 import in httplib2 to hashlib.

28/11/2008
	Google Charts API is added to generate the charts of the reports.

15/11/2008
	Re-integration of standard HTTP proxies in httplib2.
	Integration of HTTP CONNECT tunneling in Wapiti.
	Fixed bug ID 2257654 "getcookie.py error missing action in html form"

02/11/2008
	Integraded the proxy implementation of httplib2 in Wapiti.
	Can now use SOCKSv5 and SOCKSv4 proxies.

22/10/2008
	Fixed a bug with Cookie headers.

19/10/2008
	Remplaced urllib2 by httplib2.
	Wapiti now use persistent HTTP connections, speed up the scan.
	Included a python SOCKS library.

09/10/2008
	Version 2.0.0-beta
  Added the possibility to generate reports of the vulnerabilities found
  in HTML, XML or plain-text format. See options -o and -f.
	HTTP authentification now works.
	Added the option -n (or --nice) to prevent endless loops during scanning.
	More patterns for SQL vulnerability detection
	Code refactoring : more clear and more object-oriented
	New XSS function is now fully implemented
  The payloads have been separated from the code into configuration files.
	Updated BeautifulSoup

15/09/2008
  Version 1.1.7-alpha
	Use GET method if not specified in "method" tag
	Keep an history of XSS payloads
	New XSS engine for GET method using a list of payloads to bypass filters
	New module HTTP.py for http requests
	Added fpassthru to file handling warnings
	Added a new new detection string for MS-SQL, submitted by Joe McCray

28/01/2007
	Version 1.1.6
	New version of lswww

24/10/2006
	Version 1.1.5
	Wildcard exclusion with -x (--exclude) option

22/10/2006
	Fixed a typo in wapiti.py (setAuthCreddentials : one 'd' is enough)
	Fixed a bug with set_auth_credentials.

07/10/2006
	Version 1.1.4
	Some modifications have been made on getccokie.py so it can work
	on Webmin (and probably more web applications)
	Added -t (--timeout) option to set the timeout in seconds
	Added -v (--verbose) option to set the verbosity. Three availables
	modes :
	0: only print found vulnerabilities
	1: print current attacked urls (existing urls)
	2: print every attack payload and url (very much informations... good
	for debugging)
	Wapiti is much more modular and comes with some functions to set scan
	and attack options... look the code ;)
	Some defaults options are availables as "modules" with option -m
	(--module) :
	GET_XSS: only scan for XSS with HTTP GET method (no post)
	POST_XSS: XSS attacks using POST and not GET
	GET_ALL: every attack without POST requests
	
12/08/2006
	Version 1.1.3
	Fixed the timeout bug with chunked responses
	(ID = 1536565 on SourceForge)

09/08/2006
	Version 1.1.2
	Fixed a bug with HTTP 500 and POST attacks

05/08/2006
	Version 1.1.1
	Fixed the UnboundLocalError due to socket timeouts
	(bug ID = 1534415 on SourceForge)

27/07/2006
	Version 1.1.0 with urllib2
	Detection string for mysql_error()
	Changed the mysql payload (see http://shiflett.org/archive/184 )
	Modification of the README file

22/07/2006
	Added CRLF Injection.

20/07/2006
	Added LDAP Injection and Command Execution (eval, system, passthru...)

11/07/2006
	-r (--remove) option to remove parameters from URLs
	Support for Basic HTTP Auth added but don't work with Python 2.4.
	Proxy support.
	Now use cookie files (option "-c file" or "--cookie file")
	-u (--underline) option to highlight vulnerable parameter in URL
	Detect more vulnerabilities.

04/07/2006:
	Now attacks scripts using QUERY_STRING as a parameter
	(i.e. http://server/script?attackme)

23/06/2006:
	Version 1.0.1
	Can now use cookies !! (use -c var=data or --cookie var=data)
	Two utilities added : getcookie.py (interactive) and cookie.py (command line) to get a cookie.
	Now on Sourceforge

25/04/2006:
	Version 1.0.0