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What vulnerabilities do automated scanners find?

An automated scanner is good at finding these vulnerabilities:

Known holes in the web server (IIS, Apache, etc.)

Known holes in the sample applications that come installed with a web server

Error messages thrown out by your application

Any comments lying around in your HTML code

Old source code lying around on your web server

Misconfigurations in your web server

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