Explorer Preferences

Scan jobs can be configured with the optional "preferences" object. If no "preferences" object is passed to a scanning job the default parameters are used.

Scan Explorer is named this way in our front-end product, internally when using our API, please use the "lite" naming convention.

scan_type

Parameter type: string

To perform the explorer scan, send the scan type parameter with the value lite . Check the checks performed here: Features

Allowed parameters
full
default
lite
api

The lite scan was developed with the aim of being the fastest and lightest scan performed in the VScanner engine. Balance between speed, cost-benefit and satisfactory results.

In this scan, it is possible to view the results of what we call Explorer. The aim is to perform passive tasks with a high level of exploration of the necessary surface.

The explorer scan is our website scan with the "lite" parameter selected in the scan_type field. This will make the return pattern of the results found be the same as the other types of scans, maintaining compatibility.

Note that in the lite standard, no parameterize related to other fields is necessary. In other words, for the Explorer scan, only requests like the one shown below are expected:

{
    "url": "https://www.example.com",
    "preferences": {
        "scan_type": "lite"
    }
}

Example return (with fake/made-up values) to merely visualize the return pattern.

{
    "issuesSummaryTotal": 0,
    "issuesCategoriesSummary": {},
    "issues": {},
    "identificator": "14d2ba54-38fa-12f0-b4f1-e6fba28c97bd",
    "issuesSummary": {
        "critical": 0,
        "high": 0,
        "medium": 0,
        "low": 0,
        "warning": 0
    },
    "totalChecked": 79,
    "information": {
        "services": [
            {
                "state": "open",
                "reason": "syn-ack",
                "name": "http",
                "product": "cloudflare",
                "version": "",
                "port": 80
            },
            {
                "state": "open",
                "reason": "syn-ack",
                "name": "infowave",
                "product": "",
                "version": "",
                "port": 2082
            },
            {
                "state": "open",
                "reason": "syn-ack",
                "name": "http",
                "product": "nginx",
                "version": "",
                "port": 2083
            },
            {
                "state": "open",
                "reason": "syn-ack",
                "name": "gnunet",
                "product": "",
                "version": "",
                "port": 2086
            },
            {
                "state": "open",
                "reason": "syn-ack",
                "name": "http",
                "product": "nginx",
                "version": "",
                "port": 2087
            },
            {
                "state": "open",
                "reason": "syn-ack",
                "name": "nbx-ser",
                "product": "",
                "version": "",
                "port": 2095
            },
            {
                "state": "open",
                "reason": "syn-ack",
                "name": "http",
                "product": "nginx",
                "version": "",
                "port": 2096
            },
            {
                "state": "open",
                "reason": "syn-ack",
                "name": "http-proxy",
                "product": "cloudflare",
                "version": "",
                "port": 8080
            },
            {
                "state": "open",
                "reason": "syn-ack",
                "name": "https-alt",
                "product": "cloudflare",
                "version": "",
                "port": 8443
            },
            {
                "state": "open",
                "reason": "syn-ack",
                "name": "cddbp-alt",
                "product": "",
                "version": "",
                "port": 8880
            }
        ],
        "emails": [],
        "components": {
            "Handlebars": "4.0.5",
            "Backbone.js": "1.1.2",
            "Underscore.js": null,
            "Apache HTTP Server": "0.0.1",
            "MySQL": "0.0.1",
            "Marked": null,
            "Lodash": "3.10.1",
            "jQuery": "1.8.0",
            "Highlight.js": null,
            "Cloudflare": null
        },
        "database": {
            "MySQL": "0.0.1"
        },
        "web_server": {
            "Apache HTTP Server": "0.0.1"
        },
        "os": {
            "CentOS": "4.0.5"
        },
        "cdn": "Cloudflare",
        "cms": {
            "name": "WordPress",
            "version": "6.7.2",
            "last_version": null,
            "users": [
                "johndoe",
                "testuser"
            ],
            "plugins": [
                {
                    "header-footer-elementor": "1.6.46"
                },
                {
                    "elementor": "5.36.0"
                },
                {
                    "elementor-pro": "3.7.5"
                },
                {
                    "elementskit-lite": "3.5.0"
                },
                {
                    "essential-addons-for-elementor-lite": "6.1.11"
                },
                {
                    "premium-addons-for-elementor": "4.11.6"
                }
            ],
            "themes": [
                {
                    "hello-elementor": "3.3.0"
                }
            ]
        },
        "certificate": [
            {
                "Issue On": {
                    "$date": 1744590817.0
                },
                "Expires On": {
                    "$date": 1752370412.0
                },
                "commonName": "WE1",
                "subject": "api.example.com",
                "sha1": "C8:7F:62:48:42:D2:61:FC:0B:20:9C:F8:E6:5C:F7:AB:37:50:EA:C9",
                "sha256": "B6:3D:53:5F:40:1A:88:E4:E8:35:3B:67:62:2F:2F:8F:66:B4:27:92:D1:34:8A:8E:D3:9F:9D:9C:9D:7C:0B:4D",
                "serial_number": "1a:e6:c8:72:a8:b6:bf:98:13:63:96:4d:02:bf:18:52",
                "subjectAltName": [
                    "api.example.com"
                ]
            },
            {
                "Issue On": {
                    "$date": 1702483200.0
                },
                "Expires On": {
                    "$date": 1866315600.0
                },
                "commonName": "ETS Root R4",
                "subject": "WE2",
                "sha1": "10:8F:AF:79:4E:18:EC:51:47:A4:14:E4:37:0C:C4:50:6C:29:7A:B2",
                "sha256": "1D:FC:16:05:FB:AD:35:1D:8B:C8:24:F7:6D:15:20:3F:AC:9C:A5:C1:A7:9F:D4:85:7F:FA:F2:86:4F:BE:BF:96",
                "serial_number": "7f:f3:19:77:97:2c:22:4a:75:15:5d:13:b6:d6:85:e3"
            },
            {
                "Issue On": {
                    "$date": 1700045001.0
                },
                "Expires On": {
                    "$date": 1832655642.0
                },
                "commonName": "Example Root CA",
                "subject": "ETS Root R4",
                "sha1": "93:1B:ED:33:9A:A6:92:12:C8:93:75:B7:93:04:B4:75:49:0B:89:A0",
                "sha256": "76:B3:7B:80:A5:80:27:DC:3C:F1:DA:68:DA:C1:70:10:ED:93:99:7D:0B:60:3E:2F:AD:BE:85:01:24:93:B5:A7",
                "serial_number": "7f:e5:a0:bf:b3:13:43:be:dd:82:16:10:49:3d:8a:1b"
            }
        ],
        "waf": [
            "Cloudflare (Cloudflare Inc.)"
        ],
        "ips": ["179.108.217.126"],
        "isp": "ConectInc",
        "subdomains": [],
        "total_checked": 79,
        "leak_credentials": []
    },
    "preferences": {
        "scan_type": "lite",
        "leak_data_usage": 0,
        "cms_brute_force": 0,
        "scan_speed": "moderate",
        "web_brute_force": 0,
        "search_in_web_cache": false,
        "scan_deep": 3,
        "xss": false,
        "sqli": false,
        "crawler_options": {
            "open_directory": false,
            "exposed_information": false,
            "backdoor_detection": false,
            "exposed_emails": true,
            "search_url_malware": false,
            "open_redirect": true,
            "exposed_apikeys": true
        },
        "api_definition": "",
        "api_header": {}
    },
    "percentage": "100.00",
    "startDate": "2025-05-02T14:22:00.839902Z",
    "endDate": "2025-05-02T14:24:53.614990Z"
}