Using Vega scanner

Vega is a Web vulnerability scanner made by the Canadian company Subgraph and distributed as an Open Source tool. Besides being a scanner, it can be used as an interception proxy and perform, scans as we browse the target site.

We will use Vega to discover Web vulnerabilities in this recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Open Vega by selecting it from the Applications menu by navigating Applications | Kali Linux | Web Applications | Web Vulnerability Scanners | vega, or from the terminal:
    vega
  2. Click on the Start New Scan button (How to do it...).
  3. A new dialog will pop up. In a box labeled Enter a base URI for scan: we enter http://192.168.56.102/WackoPicko

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