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w3af plugin development example [closed]

I'm new to w3af, and I would like to build my own plugin. I have searched on w3af web and googled it for some examples but no luck... Can anyone give me an example how to start building plugins or ...
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How to find bugs/ vulnerabilities in web apps/sites? [closed]

What knowledge is needed? What software is to be used? How are the reports written? PS: Websites like facebook.com
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How to introduce delay in scanning tools that do not implement delay without touching source code?

Usually scanning tools implement a switch in order to delay requests and not flood the target. Sometimes there tools that do not implement this delay option. Is there a way to delay packets from ...
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Scanning DVWA with w3af - Unable to detect SQLi when security on low

I've been messing around with DVWA (Damn vulnerable web application) and w3af. I've been scanning DVWA with w3af, and have used the spiderMan proxy and http config to setup auth credentials to get ...
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FoundStone scan + URI filtering

I have a server that is protected with a firewall with URI filtering rule. So if you go http://x.x.x.x/URIFilter/Something you will get to the server, but if you don't put URIfilter into URL or use ...
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How to exploit this SQL inection vulnerability?

I am learning SQL injection on a vulnerable Web App. I scanned it with w3af. It showed many vulnerabilities. One of them is : SQL injection in a Microsoft SQL database was found at: ...
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Does WebDAV pose an unreasonable risk in IIS7.5?

I'm looking for a bit of feedback on WebDAV, in this case running on IIS7.5. I've had an IBM Rational AppScan report come to me with a medium severity finding as a result of DAV entries in the ...