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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Acunetix – SecTools Top Network Security Tools</title> <meta name="description" content="Reviews, ratings, and information about Acunetix: web vulnerability scanners, "> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/tool/acunetix/feed/"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <meta name="theme-color" content="#2A0D45"> <link rel="preload" as="image" href="/images/sitelogo.png" imagesizes="168px" imagesrcset="/images/sitelogo.png, /images/sitelogo-2x.png 2x"> <link rel="preload" as="image" href="/shared/images/nst-icons.svg"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/shared/css/nst.css?v=2"> <script async src="/shared/js/nst.js?v=2"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/shared/css/nst-foot.css?v=2" media="print" onload="this.media='all'"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/site.css">  <link rel="preload" href="https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js" as="script"> <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-11009417-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script>  <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE"> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/shared/images/tiny-eyeicon.png" type="image/png"> </head> <body><div id="nst-wrapper"> <div id="menu"> <div class="blur"> <header id="nst-head"> <a id="menu-open" href="#menu" aria-label="Open menu"> <img width="44" height="44" alt="" aria-hidden="true" src="/shared/images/nst-icons.svg#menu"> </a> <a id="menu-close" href="#" aria-label="Close menu"> <img width="44" height="44" alt="" aria-hidden="true" src="/shared/images/nst-icons.svg#close"> </a> <a id="nst-logo" href="/" aria-label="Home page"> <img alt="Home page logo" srcset="/images/sitelogo.png, /images/sitelogo-2x.png 2x" src="/images/sitelogo.png" onerror="this.onerror=null;this.srcset=this.src" height=90 width=168></a> <nav id="nst-gnav"> <a class="nlink" href="https://nmap.org/">Nmap.org</a> <a class="nlink" href="https://npcap.com/">Npcap.com</a> <a class="nlink" href="https://seclists.org/">Seclists.org</a> <a class="nlink" href="https://sectools.org">Sectools.org</a> <a class="nlink" href="https://insecure.org/">Insecure.org</a> </nav> <form class="nst-search" id="nst-head-search" action="/search/"> <input class="nst-search-q" name="q" type="search" placeholder="Site Search"> <button class="nst-search-button" title="Search"> <img style="width:100%;aspect-ratio:1/1;" alt="" aria-hidden="true" src="/shared/images/nst-icons.svg#search"> </button> </form> </header> </div> </div> <main id="nst-content"> <nav> <div id="nav"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about/">About/Help</a></li> <li><a href="/contrib/">Suggest a new tool</a></li> <li><form action="/search/" method="get"><input type="text" name="q" size="10"><input type="submit" value="Search"></form></li> </ul> </div> </nav> <h1 class="toolhead">Acunetix</h1> <ul class="inline-tags-container"> <li class="inline-tags-container"> <ul class="inline-tags"> <li><a href="http://www.acunetix.com/vulnerability-scanner/"><img src="/flags/home-icon.png" title="Homepage" alt="Home icon" border="0"></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="inline-tags-container"> <ul class="inline-tags"> <li><a href="/tag/costs/"><img src="/flags/dollarlogo_20x30.gif" title="A commercial (paid) version is available. 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It boasts a comfortable GUI, an ability to create professional security audit and compliance reports, and tools for advanced manual webapp testing. For downloads and more information, <a href="http://www.acunetix.com/vulnerability-scanner/">visit the Acunetix homepage</a>. </p> <div id="infobox"> <dl> <dt>Popularity</dt> <dd>#41, <span class="rank-up" title="Change in popularity since last survey"><img src="/flags/uparrow.gif">55</span></dd> <dt>Latest release</ttd> <dd><ul class="inline"> <li>11</li> <li>Nov. 16, 2016 (8 years, 4 months ago)</li> </ul> </dd> <dt>Links</dt> <dd><ul class="inline"> <li> <a href="http://www.acunetix.com/vulnerability-scanner/">Homepage/Download</a></li> </ul> </dd> <dt>Rating</ttd> <dd>★★★½ (5) <div class="histogram"> <span class="stars">★★★★★</span> <div class="histogram-bg"><div class="histogram-bar" style="width:40%"></div></div> <span class="percent">40%</span> <span class="stars">★★★★</span> <div class="histogram-bg"><div class="histogram-bar" style="width:20%"></div></div> <span class="percent">20%</span> <span class="stars">★★★</span> <div class="histogram-bg"><div class="histogram-bar" style="width:20%"></div></div> <span class="percent">20%</span> <span class="stars">★★</span> <div class="histogram-bg"><div class="histogram-bar" style="width:0%"></div></div> <span class="percent">0%</span> <span class="stars">★</span> <div class="histogram-bg"><div class="histogram-bar" style="width:20%"></div></div> <span class="percent">20%</span> </div> </dd> </dl> <a href="/tool/acunetix/contrib/" class="update-link">Outdated/incomplete?</a> </div> <h2>Comments</h2> <dl id="comments"> <dt id="c1421"> <span style="float:right; min-width:5em; margin-left:1em"> no rating </span> <span style="float:right"><a href="#c1421" class="permalink">July 13, 2019</a></span> SaintMalik </dt> <dd> <p> It took me ages to get this to work it kept giving me an error that I was missing some.dll files which was a rare experience while opening acunetix, the one I after downloaded it from <a href="https://smtechub.com/" rel="nofollow">https://smtechub.com/</a> which worked. However, it is a great tool overall and would recommend it to anyone. </p> </dd> <dt id="c1337"> <span style="float:right; min-width:5em; margin-left:1em"> ★ </span> <span style="float:right"><a href="#c1337" class="permalink">Nov. 21, 2018</a></span> JoshuaDaily </dt> <dd> <p> Not good as Burpsuite Pro. I really sad. Now we are using the best scanner better than Acunetix, Nessus Web Scanner and Metasploit Web Scanner.. It is Burpsuite Pro </p> </dd> <dt id="c1150"> <span style="float:right; min-width:5em; margin-left:1em"> no rating </span> <span style="float:right"><a href="#c1150" class="permalink">Feb. 18, 2017</a></span> majorAdam </dt> <dd> <p> <script>alert("sorry it is just testing")</script> </p> </dd> <dt id="c952"> <span style="float:right; min-width:5em; margin-left:1em"> ★★★★★ </span> <span style="float:right"><a href="#c952" class="permalink">March 8, 2016</a></span> Emily </dt> <dd> <p> I LOVE Acunetix. Hands down best scanner out there and I've literally used them all. Identifies sqli vulns undetected by burp and nessus. Great for beginners for obvious reasons, but you can actually learn a lot by using it. </p> </dd> <dt id="c635"> <span style="float:right; min-width:5em; margin-left:1em"> ★★★★★ </span> <span style="float:right"><a href="#c635" class="permalink">Aug. 22, 2014</a></span> <a href="http://www.notapplicable.com/" rel="nofollow">CISO</a> </dt> <dd> <p> My team used Acunetix consultant version for quite some time and compared to generic infrastructure VA tools like Nessus, and Foundstone we found the value in using a specialized Web VA tool. It found more and specific issues with precise recommendations to fix those. I recommend it based on my experience. I havent explored the IBM and HP counterparts yet...I understand that they are relatively costlier. </p> </dd> <dt id="c482"> <span style="float:right; min-width:5em; margin-left:1em"> ★★★★ </span> <span style="float:right"><a href="#c482" class="permalink">Feb. 21, 2013</a></span> <a href="http://www.andreabodei.com/" rel="nofollow">Andrea Bodei</a> </dt> <dd> <p> The rating was not submitted (now is 4 stars). I use Acunetix for all web scans </p> </dd> <dt id="c481"> <span style="float:right; min-width:5em; margin-left:1em"> no rating </span> <span style="float:right"><a href="#c481" class="permalink">Feb. 21, 2013</a></span> <a href="http://www.andreabodei.com/" rel="nofollow">Andrea Bodei</a> <a href="#c482" style="margin-left:1em; font-size:smaller">newer comment by this user ↑</a> </dt> <dd> <p> Acunetix is fast, good and cheap. Better than IBM Appscan and cheaper than HP WebInspect. </p> </dd> <dt id="c44"> <span style="float:right; min-width:5em; margin-left:1em"> ★★★ </span> <span style="float:right"><a href="#c44" class="permalink">Nov. 4, 2011</a></span> <a href="http://twitter.com/palgye9" rel="nofollow">Palgye9</a> </dt> <dd> <p> It is OK, for point and shoot, but after using it a few times and then using BurpSuite, I just put it aside for except for those clients that demanded I use an automated commercial scanner. I would on one condition that I could also use BurpSuite. 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