Research Article

Performance-Based Comparative Assessment of Open Source Web Vulnerability Scanners

Table 2

The speed and crawler depth results obtained after scanning the Web Scanner Test Site and the two Acunetix sites.

Scanner Version webscantest (HH:MM:SS) testphp (HH:MM:SS) testaspnet (HH:MM:SS) Rank (speed) Crawler coverage Rank (crawler coverage)

Arachni 0.4.3 01:23:22 00:22:10 01:05:33 2 19% 4
Arachni 1.0.2 12:11:13 00:41:34 01:00:00 3 94% 1
Wapiti 2.3.0 06:20:00 01:30:00 03:30:00 4 44% 3
Skipfish 2.1 00:11:06 00:27:40 00:11:30 1 48% 2