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Active scanning attempts to find potential vulnerabilities by using known attacks against the selected targets.
Active scanning is an attack on those targets. You should NOT use it on web applications that you do not own.
It should be noted that active scanning can only find certain types of vulnerabilities. Logical vulnerabilities, such as broken access control, will not be found by any active or automated vulnerability scanning. Manual penetration testing should always be performed in addition to active scanning to find all types of vulnerabilities.
Active scanning is configured using the Options Active Scan screen. The rules that run are configured via Scan Policies - you can have as many of these as you like.
| Active Scan tab | 'New Scan' button | |
| Sites tab | 'Attack/Active Scan...' right click menu item | |
| History tab | 'Attack/Active Scan...' right click menu item |
| UI Overview | for an overview of the user interface | |
| Features | provided by ZAP | |
| Passive scanning | ||
| Scan Policy Manager Dialog | which allows you to manage the scan policies | |
| Scanner Rules | supported by default |
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ZAP User Guide
- Introduction
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Getting Started
- Configuring proxies
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Features
- Active Scan
- Add-ons
- Alerts
- Anti CSRF Tokens
- API
- Authentication
- Break Points
- Callbacks
- Contexts
- Data Driven Content
- Filters
- Globally Excluded URLs
- HTTP Sessions
- Man-in-the-middle Proxy
- Modes
- Notes
- Passive Scan
- Scan Policies
- Scope
- Session Management
- Spider
- Statistics
- Structural Modifiers
- Structural Parameters
- Tags
- Users
- Scanner Rules
- A Simple Penetration Test
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The User Interface
- Overview
- The Top Level Menu
- The Top Level Toolbar
- The Tabs
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The Dialogs
- Active Scan
- Add Alert
- Add Break Point
- Add Note
- Encode/Decode/Hash
- Filter
- Find
- History Filter
- Manual Request Editor
- Manage Add-ons
- Manage Tags
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Options
- Active Scan
- Active Scan Input Vectors
- Alerts
- Anti CSRF Tokens
- API
- Breakpoints
- Callback Address
- Certificate
- Check for Updates
- Connection
- Database
- Display
- Dynamic SSL Certificates
- Extensions
- Global Exclude URL
- HTTP Sessions
- JVM
- Keyboard
- Language
- Local Proxies
- Passive Scan Rules
- Passive Scan Tags
- Passive Scanner
- Rule Configuration
- Scripts
- Search
- Spider
- Statistics
- Persist Session
- Resend
- Scan Policy Manager
- Scan Progress
- Session
- Spider
- The Footer
- Command Line
- Add Ons
- Releases
- Paros Proxy
- Credits
