AppSpider Pro Release Notes / May 16, 2025

May 16, 20252025.05.16

7.5.018 (released May 16, 2025)

New Crawling/Scanning features and enhancements

  • R7Crawler:
    • Added an analyze option to discover technologies and their versions.
    • Updated to version 1.0.0.335.
    • Enhanced Chromium scans to automatically analyze seed URLs for detected technologies (optional JSON reporting).
    • Improved handling of specified headers in Chromium login macros (applies to all login requests except 'accept').
  • Attack Enhancements:
    • Improved validation scanning for SSL Strength findings.
  • Scan Engine:
    • Improved scanning stability.
    • Enhanced responsiveness to scan pause, resume, and stop commands.
    • Resolved an issue causing scans to hang due to engine deadlock.
    • Enhanced backend validation to ensure consistency with the GUI and to prevent potential issues caused by improperly named scan configurations.
    • Improved the ChromeHost Event Target listener to prevent script injection from affecting website code.
    • Improved Selenium cleanup operations to reduce the risk of crashes.
    • Improved HAR file parameter parsing.
  • Macro Handling:
    • ChromeHost now supports one-time passwords (HOTP/TOTP) for Driver Click, On Click, and JavaScript macros.
  • Password Exposure checks now correctly handle non-case-sensitive and encrypted characters.
  • Updated NodeJS to include security fixes.
  • Report Config: Added the MaxReportResponseTrafficSize option to configure the maximum length of VulnList.Vuln.CrawlTrafficResponse.
  • Updated to PCI 4.0 report mapping.
  • Improved handling of Content-Security-Policy meta tags in the website body during ChromeHost scans.
  • Upgraded Selenium ChromeDriver to version 136.0.7103.49.

7.5.017 (Released April 10, 2025)

Description

This release includes enhancements to crawling and scanning capabilities, covering GraphQL, installer improvements, macro handling, PDF reports, performance, login workflows, thread pool stability, and ChromeDriver updates. Windows Fiber technology has been removed from the scan engine.

New Crawling/Scanning Features and Enhancements

  • Removed Windows Fiber technology from the scan engine.
  • GraphQL: Enhanced schema file handling for more accurate query generation.
  • AppSpider REST Service Installer: Improved installation support for non-English Windows operating systems.
  • R7Crawler Macros: Added functionality to convert .rec and .xml files to .json format.
  • PDF Reports: Improved report generation when running scans with the Chromium browser.
  • Performance: Enhanced by removing redundant code and mitigating potential issues.
  • Login Handling: Improved reliability for logins involving pop-up windows in R7Crawler macros.
  • Scan Engine: Further optimized thread pool handling for improved stability.
  • Upgraded Selenium ChromeDriver to version 135.0.7049.42.