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Scan web apps with Nikto

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, shell
Domain
ci-cd, security

Research direction

Start by reading the linked Nikto article and reviewing the six listed LizardByte repositories to determine which web applications and automation entry points are in scope. The issue does not name files, tests, or completion criteria, so define the target scans, integration location, and expected results before implementation.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

6+ months Bash/Shell/Scripting effort:Large GitHub actions LizardByte/GameDB LizardByte/Koko LizardByte/LizardByte.github.io LizardByte/shared-web LizardByte/Sunshine LizardByte/support-bot planned priority:Medium
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Repositories

LizardByte/Sunshine, LizardByte/GameDB, LizardByte/Koko, LizardByte/LizardByte.github.io, LizardByte/shared-web, LizardByte/support-bot

Languages/Skills/Technologies

Bash/Shell/Scripting, GitHub actions

Description

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/an-introduction-to-web-server-scanning-with-nikto/

Estimated Effort

effort:Large

Priority

priority:Medium

Target Milestone

6+ months

Dependencies

No response

Dominant language
No language data
Stars
2
Forks
0
Avg merge
25m
Merged PRs (30d)
5

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