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API Reference: Web Application Scanning with Nikto

Nikto CLI Options

Flag Description
-h <host> Target hostname or IP
-port <ports> Target ports (comma-separated)
-ssl Force SSL/TLS connection
-Format xml|json|csv|htm Output format
-output <file> Save results to file
-Tuning <options> Scan tuning categories
-Plugins <list> Specific plugins to run
-maxtime <seconds>s Maximum scan duration
-nointeractive Disable interactive prompts
-useproxy <url> Use HTTP proxy
-id <user:pass> HTTP Basic auth credentials

Tuning Categories

Code Category
1 Interesting File / Seen in logs
2 Misconfiguration / Default File
3 Information Disclosure
4 Injection (XSS/Script/HTML)
5 Remote File Retrieval - Inside Web Root
6 Denial of Service
7 Remote File Retrieval - Server Wide
8 Command Execution / Remote Shell
9 SQL Injection
0 File Upload

XML Output Structure

Element Description
<niktoscan> Root element
<scandetails> Scan metadata
<item> Individual finding
<item id="..." osvdbid="..."> Finding with OSVDB reference
<uri> Affected URI path
<description> Finding description

Python Libraries

Library Version Purpose
subprocess stdlib Execute Nikto CLI
xml.etree.ElementTree stdlib Parse Nikto XML output
json stdlib Report generation

References