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Version 0.5.3 - October 1, 2020

This is a minor release with miscellaneous changes, seven new plugins, and two plugin updates.

MISC

  • #319 MongoDB logging now uses upsert (update by default, insert if new) (@juananpe)
  • #314 Makefile now allows supports the PREFIX environment variable (@bfontaine)

NEW PLUGINS

  • Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) (@definity)
  • JFrog Artifactory (@bcoles)
  • Matomo (@urbanadventurer)
  • MobileIron-MDM (@bcoles)
  • Slack-Workspace (@bcoles)
  • Wobserver (@urbanadventurer)
  • Zoom (@bcoles)

PLUGIN UPDATES

  • Magento (@huntertl)
  • phpMyAdmin (@juananpe)

Version 0.5.2 - June 9, 2020

This is a minor update with bug fixes, and one new plugin, PHP-Slim.

FIXES

  • #299 Fixed warning: URI.escape is obsolete error by using the Using Addressable Gem. Thanks @weidsom (Weidsom Nascimento)
  • #306, #307 Improvements to Makefile. @xambroz
  • #304 Log level for mongodb-logger is set to "FATAL", unless WhatWeb is run with debug-mode enabled. @helsecert

NEW PLUGINS

  • PHP-Slim Marcelo Gimenes (@cgimenes)

Version 0.5.1 - February 25, 2020

This is a minor release with bug fixes, one new plugin, and a couple of plugin updates.

FIXES

  • #275 Makefile now installs on macOS
  • #286 typo for --cookie-jar commandline option.
  • #283 path loading issue when whatweb is installed as a symlink. @abenson and @blshkv
  • #288 error with JSON output when the target list is empty
  • #289 removed empty object from end of JSON output
  • #293 and #294 Fix MongoDB output @LrsK

MISC

  • Makefile now installs a symlink in the PATH
  • CHANGELOG.md and INSTALL.md files are now in MarkDown format
  • Removed requirement for open3 gem in Integration Tests

NEW PLUGINS

  • Bootstrap - @phylu

PLUGIN UPDATES

  • Kayako-SupportSuite - @urbanadventurer
  • ASP_NET - @urbanadventurer

Version 0.5.0 - October 4, 2019

Version 0.5.0 is a major version release form @urbanadventurer and @bcoles. 👏 With the help of the WhatWeb community we have reached over 1800 plugins!

⚠️ Plugin authors should take note that this release is not backwards compatible, and we have made a migration tool to help you update your private or unreleased plugins.

FEATURES

  • Added WhatWeb Logo and icons
  • Added IDN (International Domain Name) support
  • Merged 31 new plugins by Bhavin Senjaliya and 22 plugin updates from the unofficial WhatWeb gem at https://rubygems.org/gems/whatweb/
  • Added 9 unit tests
  • Added loading cookies from a FILE with --cookie-jar=FILE in the document.cookie format
  • Added Migration tool to convert plugins to the v0.5 format in plugin-development/migrate-plugins-to-v0.5.rb
  • Refactored and modularised the codebase -- @urbanadventurer and @bcoles

FIXES

  • Bug fix - Ruby 2.4 and 2.5 OpenSSL issue
  • Bug fix - Fixed ElasticSearch version 6+ issue
  • Bug fix - SQL output issue
  • Bug fix - In HTTP Auth parsing @rmaksimov
  • Fix bug causing WhatWeb to exit with no output. Thanks @mguillau42 for tracking down this race condition.
  • Typo fix. Thanks Jose Nazario (@paralax)
  • Bug fix - clean incorrent UTF-8 byte sequences when loading from file @dirtyfilthy

MISC

  • Updated all plugins with an authors array to show multiple authors
  • Plugin list now shows plugin names and websites instead of a truncated plugin description.
  • Updated the usage help. Reduced the size of the short usage help.
  • Better error reporting in commandline options
  • Updated README and converted to Markdown format
  • Updated manpage
  • Plugins instance variable handling improvement. @Code0x58
  • Plugin name defined within plugin as variable. @Code0x58
  • Changed from functions to blocks for passive and aggressive plugins. @Code0x58
  • Changed plugin locking @Code0x58
  • Changed the behaviour of --grep to only output results that match the grep plugin
  • Changed the behaviour of --grep so regexp or text can be matched
  • Removed feature --follow-redirect same-domain because it relies on the out-dated TLD library for valid TLDs and SLDs
  • Removed requirement for 'nmap' and now use the IPAddr gem for IP address ranges. CIDR, x.x.x.x-x.x.x.x and x.x.x.x-x supported

PLUGINS

  • 48 new plugins from contributors
  • 31 plugins updated from contributors
  • 100+ plugin updates by Andrew Horton (@urbanadventurer)

NEW PLUGINS

  • 1n1-hosting.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • amazon-elastic-load-balancer.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • azure.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • bad-behaviour-anti-spam-plugin.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • clickmotive.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • cdk-connected-website.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • craftcms.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • f5-big-ip.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • hubspot.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • jw-player.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • laravel.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • mezzanine.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • moonfruit.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • netsuite.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • nop-commerce.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • pyro-cms.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • sailsjs.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • schoolwires-centricity.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • shopify.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • sitecore.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • square-space.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • tealeaf.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • teleflora.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • unbounce.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • website-tonight.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • webtrends.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • weebly.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • wix.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • wordfence.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • world-now.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • wpml.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • bigcommerce.rb - Claudio Salazar (@csalazar)
  • demandware.rb - Claudio Salazar (@csalazar) *ocp.rb - Claudio Salazar (@csalazar)
  • aspforum.rb - Mateusz Golewski (@golewski)
  • lithium.rb - Mateusz Golewski (@golewski)
  • stackexchange.rb - Mateusz Golewski (@golewski)
  • xenforo.rb - Mateusz Golewski (@golewski)
  • kinja.rb - Sigit Dewanto
  • trbas.rb - Sigit Dewanto
  • advance_digitalmg.rb - Elias Dorneles (@eliasdorneles)
  • newbay_media.rb - Elias Dorneles (@eliasdorneles)
  • gannett.rb - Eugene Amirov (@Allactaga)
  • yaf.rb - Eugene Amirov (@Allactaga)
  • blox.rb - Shuai Lin (@lins05)
  • mcclatchy_interactive.rb - Shuai Lin (@lins05)
  • tribune.rb - Shuai Lin (@lins05)
  • genexus.rb - Daniel Maldonado (@elcodigok)
  • odoo.rb - Naglis Jonaitis (@naglis)

PLUGIN UPDATES

  • 3dcart.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • asp-net.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • big-commerce.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • blox.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • demandware.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • django.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • dot-cms.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • DotNetNuke.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • drupal.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • ektron.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • expression-engine.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • incapsula.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • kentico.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • magento.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • nitix-netscaler.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • piwik.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • prestashop.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • ruby-on-rails.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • symfony.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • blox.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • typo3.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • vbulletin.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • xenforo.rb - Bhavin Senjaliya (@bhavin1223)
  • smf.rb - Claudio Salazar (@csalazar)
  • vbulletin.rb - Claudio Salazar (@csalazar)
  • bbpress.rb - Shuai Lin (@lins05)
  • joomla.rb (aggressive version detection) - @anozoozian
  • jquery.rb - Janosch Maier (@Phylu)Janosch Maier (@Phylu)
  • typo3.rb - Janosch Maier (@Phylu)
  • wordpress.rb - @ajgon (Igor Rzegocki) - aggressive matches up to 5.0.2.
  • wordpress.rb - @SlivTaMere
  • wordpress.rb - @anozoozian

Version 0.4.9 November 23rd 2017

  • Added unit testing with rake @bcoles
  • Added Elastic Search output @SlivTaMere
  • Source code formatting cleanup @Code0x58
  • Thread reuse and logging through a single thread @Code0x58
  • Fixed max-redirection bug @Code0x58
  • Fixed bug when using a proxy and HTTPS (unknown user)
  • Fixed timeout deprecation warning @iGeek098
  • New plugins and plugin updates @guikcd @bcoles @andreas-becker
  • Added proxy and user-agent to logging @rdubourguais
  • Updated Alexa top websites lists
  • Updated update-alexa script
  • Updated IP to Country database
  • Updated man page
  • Updated Mongo DB output for Mongo 2.x

Version 0.4.8-dev (Continuous release 2012 - 2017)

  • Added support for all ciphers - TLSv1:TLSv1.1:TLSv1.2:SSLv3:SSLv2. Thanks @milo2012
  • New colour scheme for brief output
  • New Verbose output
  • --color, --colour now takes case insensitive arguments, and can be enabled under Windows
  • HTTP Status descriptions are now included in brief and verbose output
  • Added short usage help
  • Converted all plugins to lowercase filenames
  • Updated plugins. Moved 100s of patterns in passive functions to matches[]
  • Added --search-plugins
  • Fixed bug with relative :url matching
  • Fixed bug with JSON output parsing
  • Fixed bug where :search => headers[xyz] was not case insensitive
  • Fixed bugs for Ruby 1.9.x and Ruby 2.x. Dropped support for Ruby 1.8.x. Thanks to nil0x42 and pvdl for bug fixes
  • Added TLSv1 support for Ruby 1.9.x and Ruby 2.x
  • Updated plugin list output
  • Updated plugin info output
  • Renamed scripts in plugin-development/ that update the Alexa lists and IP Country Database
  • Updated get-pattern for Ruby 2.x
  • Added over 700 new plugins
  • Added aggressive version detection using md5 static file matches to several plugins
  • Added support for raw HTTP headers when scanning local files
  • Added --dorks to return google dorks for the selected plugin
  • Added google dorks to more than 500 plugins
  • Added ./addons/hunter
  • Added ./addons/gggooglescan
  • Added ./addons/country-scanner
  • Added SQL logging with --log-sql and --log-sql-create arguments.
  • Added raw header support by monkey patching the net/http library
  • Added context searching for plugin matches[]. Added the matches keyword, :search. Values can be "headers","headers[server]"(or any other HTTP header),"body"(default), "all" (the raw headers + body)
  • Added methods for aggressive plugins to send HEAD and POST requests
  • Added --grep, -g option. Similar usage to --custom-plugin. (Requested by Scott Bell)
  • Removed the spidering feature and dependence on the customised and unsupported Anemone gem
  • Removed the extra_urls feature
  • Removed dependency on em-resolv-replace
  • Updated whatweb.xsl
  • Fixed a bug causing Mongo DB logging to fail
  • Fixed a bug causing brief logging to not escape special characters
  • Fixed meta refresh redirection but with HTML entities in the URL
  • Redesigned and refactored much of Whatweb's code. Introduced the Target class
  • Targets from input files are now executed ascending order
  • Better support for UTF-8 encoded strings in plugins.
  • :status and :url are now logical AND with other matches. They cannot match in isolation unless with each other.
  • Updated Country plugin. Fixed IPv6 bug
  • Changed version from 0.4.8 to 0.4.8-dev to show development version
  • Plugin brief output is now sorted alphabetically by plugin name
  • Removed plugin example URLs

Version 0.4.7 Released April 5th 2011

  • Performance enhancements & bug fixes
  • Added -p + as a shortcut for -p +plugins-disabled
  • Added --quiet, -q - to not display brief logging to STDOUT
  • Fix Makefile - you can now install whatweb over an old version
  • Removed certainty from Mongo and JSON output unless certainty < 100
  • Removed certainty info from verbose output unless certainty <100
  • Bugfixes for error reporting
  • Updated some error messages
  • Changed default open and read timeouts to 15 and 30 seconds respectively
  • Updated slow plugins
  • Added plugins: TVersity, Ultimate-Bulletin-Board,
  • Moved plugins to plugins-disabled: atom_feed, meta-city, meta-contact, meta-country, meta-geography, meta-state, meta-zipcode and script
  • Renamed mailto plugin to email

Version 0.4.6 Released March 25th 2011

  • Updated ~230 plugins
  • Added ~600 new plugins
  • Added Escenic CMS plugin from Erik Inge Bolsø
  • Added EscenicEngine5 plugin by nikosk
  • Added barracuda-load-balancer, binarysec-firewall, citrix-netscaler, cloudflare, evercookie, juniper-netscreen-secure-access, juniper-load-balancer, profense-firewall, vTigerCRM, watchguard-firewall, www-authenticate plugins by Aung Khant
  • Moved some plugins into disabled-plugins, as they clutter output. adobe_flash.rb, footer-hash.rb, frame.rb, header-hash.rb, md5.rb, script.rb, shortcut-icon.rb, tagpattern-hash.rb
  • Renamed disabled-plugins/ to plugins-disabled/
  • Changed $ANEMONE_SKIP_REGEX=Regexp.union line to be compatible with Ruby 1.8.6. Thanks to Michal Ambroz
  • Added plugin reporting support for :model=>, :firmware=>, :module=>
  • Added --wait SECONDS between connections. Combine with -t 1 if preferred.
  • Added meta-refresh redirect support. eg. . Only for non-spidering
  • Added {:version=>/regexp/, :offset} to remove cargo cult programming. eg. {:version=>/<meta name="Generator" (content|CONTENT)="(ASPNUKE|ASP-Nuke) ([^->"]+)/, :offset=>2, :name=>"meta generator tag" }
  • Replaced :probability with :certainty in my-plugins/plugin-template.rb.txt. Thanks Erik Inge Bolsø
  • Added support for em-resolv-replace which speeds up whatweb many times. http://github.com/mperham/em-resolv-replace
  • Added XML stylesheet "whatweb.xsl" for XML reports
  • Added reporting of version detection with matches to the Plugin Info, eg. whatweb -I
  • Changed whatweb -I behaviour to search plugins for keywords. eg. './whatweb -I nuke' brings up ASP-Nuke, PHPNuke, DotNetNuke, etc.
  • Bugfix: Changed webpage data for when working with files, not URIs. Now it passes empty hashes, etc instead of nil which caused plugins to report errors.
  • Added MongoDB logging. Use with --log-mongo-database, --log-mongo-host, --log-mongo-collection, --log-mongo-username, --log-mongo-password. Only database has no default.
  • Added JSON logging. Must have the json ruby gem installed or be using Ruby 1.9
  • Added MagicTree logging.
  • MagicTree logging updated by Gremwell.
  • Added error logging.
  • Added Verbose logging.
  • Added XML header and footer to XML logs
  • Modified XML logging to record modules separately
  • Bug fix: Escaping the XML log properly for &, <, >, "
  • All logs are now flushed/synced
  • Bug fix: References to :probability instead of :certainty in some logging
  • Changed error message for non resolving hostnames from "undefined method `closed?' for nil:NilClass" to "Cannot resolve hostname"
  • Added ascii whatweb logo
  • Moved Plugin class into lib/plugins.rb
  • Added startup and shutdown for plugins
  • Model and Firmware results now display in dark green
  • Added :filepath match type
  • Added vulnerability matching support, this is still in the experimental phase and not supported.
  • Added vulnerability matching code to the awstats plugin.
  • Precompiled regular expressions in matches[] for speed improvement
  • Changed internal sleep times from 1s to 0.5s
  • Added --debug to raise errors found in plugins
  • Usage displays faster when no arguments are provided
  • Added version string to the help usage
  • Added advanced plugin template
  • Removed How to write whatweb plugins text file as it's deprecated by the wiki
  • Brief output escapes [] and all characters before SPACE with URL encoding
  • Added --quiet, -q to suppress Brief Output on stdout by default. Thanks to cdybedahl for this idea.
  • Improved OSX compatibility with a patch from matti for symlinks
  • Added :status for HTTP Status codes to match[]. :status has a logical AND with a :url, it can't be by itself.
  • Updated plugin list and plugin info output
  • Bug fix: Now redirects for HTTP statuses 300 through 399. Previously redirected for 301,302 and 307.
  • Bug fix: :account didn't have regular expression support
  • Changed :modules to :module, deprecated :accounts to :account
  • Added redirect control. options are 'never',http-only', meta-only', same-site', same-domain', 'always'
  • Added --max-redirects. Control the maximum number of contiguous redirects followed
  • Added custom headers. Can be used multiple times. Examples: --header or -H. eg. "foo:bar" or "user-agent: blinky". Specifying a default header will replace it. Specifying an empty value removes hte header, eg. "User-Agent:"
  • Added support for HTTP basic authentication. -u and --user
  • Added plugin-development/get-pattern by Aung Khant
  • Added to plugin-development/: wget-alexa-top-1m, wget-ip-to-country, alexa-top-1000.txt, alexa-top-100.txt, wikipedia-top-1000.txt
  • Added nmap-style IP address range support

Version 0.4.5 Released August 17th 2010

  • Added 5 plugins from Tonmoy Saikia. They are: Commonspot, TextPattern, Mediawiki, DUclassified and Mailman
  • Added 119 plugins from Brendan Coles. They are: Alcatel-Lucent-Omniswitch, Allinta-CMS, anyInventory, Arab-Portal, AVTech-Video-Web-Server, Barracuda-Spam-Firewall, Basilic, Biromsoft-WebCam, BlueNet-Video-Server, BM-Classifieds, Brother-Printer, BusinessSpace, BXR, Campsite, Canon-Network-Camera, Cisco-VPN-3000-Concentrator, CMSQLite, ColdFusion, coWiki, cpCommerce, CruxCMS, CruxPA, Dell-Printer, D-Link-Network-Camera, DMXReady, DT-Centrepiece, EazyCMS, eLitius, EMO-Realty-Manager, Empire-CMS, envezion~media, eSyndiCat, Evo-Cam, FestOS, Flax-Article-Manager, FluentNET, Forest-Blog, GuppY, HP-LaserJet-Printer, i-Catcher-Console, iDVR, Intellinet-IP-Camera, Interspire-Shopping-Cart, IPCop-Firewall, IQeye-Netcam, iRealty, iScripts-CyberMatch, iScripts-EasySnaps, iScripts-MultiCart, iScripts-ReserveLogic, iScripts-SocialWare, JAMM-CMS, Jamroom, Linksys-NAS, Linksys-Network-Camera, Linksys-Wireless-G-Camera, LocazoList-Classifieds, Lucky-Tech-iGuard, Mobotix-Network-Camera, MyioSoft-Ajax-Portal, My-PHP-Indexer, My-WebCamXP-Server, NetBotz-Network-Monitoring-Device, Netious-CMS, Netsnap-Web-Camera, Nukedit, Open-Blog, ORCA-Platform, ORITE-301-Camera, PageUp-People, Panasonic-Network-Camera, Parked-Domain, PHPDirector, PHPEasyData, phPhotoAlbum, Pixel-Ads-Script, Pixie, Pligg-CMS, PortalApp, Pressflow, RunCMS, sabros.us, samPHPweb, SHOUTcast-Administrator, SimpNews, SkaLinks, SmodCMS, Snap-Appliance-Server, Softbiz-Freelancers-Script, Softbiz-Online-Auctions-Script, Softbiz-Online-Classifieds, Sony-Network-Camera, Sony-Video-Network-Station, Stardot-Express, StarDot-NetCam, Star-Network, Subdreamer-CMS, Subrion-CMS, SyndeoCMS, syntaxCMS, TaskFreak, Team-Board, The-PHP-Real-Estate-Script, TomatoCMS, Toshiba-Network-Camera, Veo-Observer, VisionGS-Webcam, WebDVR, WebEye-Network-Camera, WebPress, WhiteBoard, Winamp-Web-Interface, Windows-Internet-Printing, Xerox-Printers, xGB, XHP-CMS, Zeus-Cart, Zoph, Zyxel-Vantage-Service-Gateway
  • Added 11 plugins from Caleb Anderson. They are: AdobeFlash, AtomFeed, CodeIgniterProfiler, DublinCore, MicrosoftODBCError, MysqlSyntaxError, OpenGraphProtocol, OpenID, OpenSearch, PasswordField, RSSFeed
  • Updated plugins: Aardvark-Topsites-PHP, Confluence, Open-Source-Ticket-Request-System, PHP-Link-Directory, PHP-Shell, Vulnerable-to-XSS, Zoph
  • Updated mailto plugin
  • Verbose output now shows which patterns were matched within a plugin
  • Fixed bug: Removed Makefile reference to 'disabled-plugins' folder
  • Ruby 1.9 compatability fix. requires digest/md5 instead of md5
  • Ruby 1.9 compatability fix. Replace UTF8 chars in frog-cms, dotnetnuke and mno-go-search and wordpress-supercache
  • Fixed spelling error of verion in help information
  • Fixed a typo where -t is shown as the command line option for proxies
  • Modified command line usage and is now in 80x24 terminal format
  • MD5sum of body is now available as @md5sum to all plugins
  • :md5 is available in matches[], eg. {:name=>"must be treshna.com",:md5=>"8666257030b94d3bdb46e05945f60b42"}
  • tag pattern of HTML elements in body is now available as @tagpattern to all plugins
  • :tagpattern is available in matches[], eg. {:name=>"must be google.com",:tagpattern=>""!doctype,html,head,meta,title,/title,script,/script,style,/style, etc...."}
  • :url is available in plugins. eg. {:url=>"/wp-login.php", :text=>'action=lostpassword'}, this will match the url and the text passively and when scanning aggressively, it will request the specified url and check for the text. Another example, {:url=>"/readme.html", :md5=>'9ea06ab0184049bf4ea2410bf51ce402', :version=>"3.0"},
  • Added --url-prefix, eg. whatweb --url-prefix www.morningstarsecurity.com/ -i ./guess-files
  • Added --url-suffix, eg. whatweb --url-suffix /robots.txt -i ./target-urls
  • Added --url-pattern, eg. whatweb --url-pattern www.example.com/%insert%/.htaccess -i ./folder-list
  • Added --custom-plugin to define a plugin on the command line. eg, ./whatweb --custom-plugin ":text=>'powered by abc'" -i ./targets or --custom-plugin "{:text=>'powered by abc'},{:regexp=>/meta abc/i}" -i ./targets
  • Plugin errors are now in red, added target name
  • Added --open-timeout and --read-timeout
  • Removed div-span plugin, replaced with HTML tag pattern hash
  • Added --spider-skip-extensions. Redefine the file extensions that Anemone will skip. The list is comma delimited.
  • Moved plugin-template.rb to my-plugins and added more example, comments, etc
  • Added $DEBUG = false. If set to true, it will raise errors in plugins to assist plugin development.

Version 0.4.4 Released June 29th 2010

  • :probability is renamed to :certainty. :certainty in plugins is no longer required, it defaults to 100 if not specified.
  • Fixed bug with ruby 1.8.5 when loading plugins
  • Added author names to plugin info, eg. whatweb -I
  • Added 67 plugins from Brendan Coles, bringing WhatWeb up to 163 plugins. 360-Web-Manager,ANECMS,AWStats,Aardvark-Topsites-PHP,ArGoSoft-Mail-Server,Axis-Network-Camera,BeEF,BlognPlus,Burning-Board-Lite,CGI,CGIProxy,CMScontrol,CMSimple,Confluence,DUforum,DUgallery,F3Site,File-Upload-Manager,Google-API,Google-Hack-Honeypot,IMGallery,JGS-Portal,Kloxo,Liferay,Lime-Survey,Linksys-USB-HDD,Loggix,Microsoft-Sharepoint,Open-Freeway,Open-Source-Ticket-Request-System,PG-Roomate-Finder-Solution,PHP-Fusion,PHP-Layers,PHP-Link-Directory,PHP-Shell,PHPFM,PHPraid,PhilBoard,Piwik,QNAP-NAS,Saurus-CMS,Site-Sift,TWiki,Trac,Turbo-Seek,Umbraco,VideoShareEnterprise,Virtualmin,Vulnerable-To-XSS,WWWBoard,Web-Calendar-System,Web-Data-Administrator,WoW-Raid-Manager,X7-Chat,Zen-Cart,Zikula,boastMachine,ezBOO-WebStats,jobberBase,mojoPortal,php-ping,phpFreeChat,phpMyAdmin,phpPgAdmin,phpSysInfo,phpinfo,uPortal
  • Added references to Security-Assessment.com
  • Updates to README, CHANGELOG, plugin-template.rb.txt

Version 0.4.3 Released May 24th 2010

  • Added GPLv2 notices
  • Added Makefile (Thanks Michal Ambroz )
  • Added man pages (Thanks Michal Ambroz )
  • Added --version
  • Added Invalid command line argument handling
  • Added @cookie variable to plugins but is not availble for recursive use
  • Changed output colour of page titles
  • Changed plugin names to use a CamelCase convention
  • Merged the google analytics GA and Urchin plugins
  • Modified MovableType plugin
  • Added Cookie names plugin
  • Added Concrete5 CMS plugin
  • Added CushyCMS plugin
  • Added FrogCMS plugin
  • Added ModxCMS plugin
  • Added TypoLight plugin
  • Added ExpressionEngine plugin
  • Fixed a bug in Tomcat plugin
  • New feature, my-plugins/ folder. Keep your personal plugins separate.
  • Usage info shows correct defaults
  • Fixed a bug where aggressive plugins didn't use the proxy settings
  • Added XML (naive) logging
  • Updated usage to show how to pipe HTML to /dev/stdin
  • Added --no-redirect option. Do not follow HTTP 3xx redirects

Version 0.4.2 Released April 30th 2010

  • Added header-hash plugin. Makes a hash of the first 500 characters. This is useful to identify unknown systems
  • Added footer-hash plugin. Makes a hash of the last 500 characters, only if the page has > 1000 characters. This is useful to identify unknown systems
  • Added div-span-structure plugin. Makes a hash of a signature of div and span tags. This is useful to identify unknown systems
  • Added MikroTik Router plugin. Recognises version
  • Fixed a bug where the URL had a ? suffix. This caused some types of http servers to repspond incorrectly.
  • Added SquirrelMail plugin. Recognises version
  • Added SearchFitShoppingCart plugin. Recognises version
  • Added RoundCube plugin.
  • Modified OSCommerce plugin. Recognises security warnings about file permissions and installation directory.
  • Changed output colour to be more readable. Plugins that create hashes are in grey
  • Changed output order of plugins, so plugins that create hashes come last

Version 0.4.1 Released April 28th 2010

  • Removed dependency on rubygems and libxslt by modifying and locally including the Anemone gem. This also simplified installation
  • Fixed a bug which didn't send URL parameters. eg. would send /index.php instead of /index.php?q=foo
  • Improved installation instructions. Henri Salo contacted me to say ruby-dev is required for Anemone
  • Removed UTF-8 character in formmail
  • Changed require 'md5' to require 'digest/md5' for compatibility with ruby 1.9
  • Fixed bug in Tomcat plugin
  • Added SilverStripe plugin
  • Added DotNetNuke plugin
  • Added HTML5 plugin
  • Added PHP error plugin
  • Modified PHP-Nuke plugin
  • Changed the plugin development script, wget-list to retry only twice
  • Added proxy support
  • Default threads is now 25
  • Default max recursive spidering depth is now 10
  • Default max number of links to follow on a single page is now 250

Version 0.4 Released March 13th 2010

  • Added HTTPS support
  • Improved installation instructions
  • Improved documentation
  • Better compatibility with ruby 1.9. Changed a case statement syntax, changed when 0: to when 0 then.
  • Removed UTF-8 characters in plugins that were causing crashes
  • Added php-nuke plugin, passively recognises modules
  • Added Fluxbb plugin, can identify versions aggressively
  • Added meta powered-by plugin. Matches tags like
  • Added powered by plugin. Matches "Powered by BobsCMS", any text following powered by
  • Improved plugin info listing invoked by ./whatweb -I. Shows number of examples and matches, and shows presence of passive and aggressive functions
  • Changed output style. Before strings are surrounded by single quotes, now all strings are surrounded by square brackets
  • Added OpenCMS plugin submitted by Emilio Casbas
  • Added TomCat plugin submitted by Louis Nyffenegger
  • Improved meta-generator plugin
  • Fixed a bug in processing a target list from a file where a trailing space would be interpreted incorrectly

Version 0.3 Released November 2nd 2009 at Kiwicon III