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Briefly, a web application scanner explores a web application by crawling through its web pages and examines it for security vulnerabilities, which involves generation of malicious inputs and evaluation of application's responses.
Web Application Scanner Functional Specification Version 1.0, NIST Special Publication 500-269
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