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I've heard that there are some free applications that will check the vulnerability of a PHP website, but I don't know what to use. I'd like a free program (preferably with a GUI) for Windows that will analyze my site an give me a report.

Anyone know of a solution?

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Top 10 Web Vulnerability Scanners from Insecure.org (listing from 2006). Their number one, Nikto2, can be found here.

tvanfosson
Another free one released since then is Google's Skipfish http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/
Cheekysoft
+5  A: 

There are only certain security holes you can check for with any program. You can check your PHP configuration, Apache configuration, passwords, common bugs, etc. but you can't really check programatically for logic errors which might cause security holes.

Your best bet would be to do a thorough code review of the website. Or, better yet, have several other people do a thorough code review of the website, looking for security holes.

Keith Palmer