Acunetix Premium
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Acunetix Premium is a web application security scanner that automatically detects vulnerabilities like SQL injectionSQL injectionAn attack that makes an application treat untrusted input as part of a database command. It can expose or modify data by changing what the query does., XSSXSSCross-site scripting, an attack that runs malicious script in another user's browser through a trusted site. It can steal data or perform actions using the user's session., and misconfigurations across websites and APIs.
Summary
Acunetix Premium is a commercial web-app-security scanner that automatically detects vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, and misconfigurations across websites and APIs. It is licensed with a commercial agreement and runs as a service, supporting installation via Command Line, Docker, or as an agent deployment across technologies like PHP, .NET, JAVA, and Node.js. This tool is designed for security teams needing to scan web assets and APIs, and its documentation positions it alongside other WAFs for result exporting. The product was first launched in 2005 and has had 9 releases in the tracked period.
Acunetix Premium is a web application security scanner that automatically detects vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, and misconfigurations across websites and APIs.
How Acunetix Premium helps
Where in the source is a reported vulnerability actually introduced?
with the AcuSensor agent deployed alongside the PHP, .NET, Java, or Node.js code, matches each finding to the file and line that produced it, not just the URL
Which of my web servers or network services are exposed and misconfigured?
runs the network scanning component against the target's open ports and services and reports weak configurations alongside the web-layer findings
Are the vulnerabilities on this target getting fixed over time?
tracks each finding through the vulnerability manager so its status can be reviewed and compared against earlier scans of the same target
Can I push these findings straight into the firewall protecting this site?
exports scan results in the format expected by the target WAF (AWS WAF, F5 Big-IP ASM, Imperva SecureSphere, FortiWeb, or Citrix) so blocking rules can be generated without re-keying the findings
Are hosts crawled outside working hours skewing my results or availability?
lets excluded hours be set so scans avoid chosen windows, and scan results and network errors are reported separately per run for review
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Score card
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Shipping velocity releases a month, last 12 months
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Documentation quality release-notes rubric, 0–100
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Breaking-change discipline how rarely a release breaks users, and notice given
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Maintenance risk quiet time against its own cadence, maintainers
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Innovation & surface new capabilities, API and MCP surface
Five scores for Acunetix Premium, each built from the releases, notes and API history this site tracks — and, on Researcher and Business, where it stands among every measured tool in its category and how that has moved.
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Blank means never measured; nothing here is a filled-in zero.
Peer standings are included with Researcher and Business. See how this tool ranks against its competitors, using data we don't publish anywhere else.
See plans →Each score is 0–100 on a published rubric, derived from data this site already shows. A dimension we cannot measure says so — it is never scored 0 and never enters a rank.
How this is scored
- Shipping velocity — releases a month over the last 12 months, on a log scale where 16 a month scores 100. Needs 3 releases in the window.
- Documentation quality — the release-notes rubric published on the analytics page, unchanged.
- Breaking-change discipline — the share of releases carrying a breaking change (none scores 100, half or more scores 0). Only projects that label breaking changes are measured: a clean record cannot be told from an unlabelled one.
- Maintenance risk — quiet time measured against the tool's own release cadence (quiet longer than 90 days and three typical gaps scores 0), plus the number of active maintainers and whether contributors are growing, where known. Higher is lower risk.
- Innovation & surface — new capabilities in the feature ledger this year, API and MCP operations added, and the share of commits that are features: the mean of whichever we hold.
- Community health (open-source tools only) — each is a direction, not a size: contributors this year against last, the bus factor now against a year ago, and issues closed per issue opened, where steady scores 50, doubled 100 and halved 0; plus the median time to a maintainer's first reply (an hour scores about 100, a month or more 0). A commercial card has no repository and carries none of the four.
- Documented delivery (commercial tools) — when a vendor's documented new capabilities have slowed against its own baseline, that counts against the overall standing as heavily as two low dimensions. Steady delivery, or too little history to judge, leaves the standing alone; it is never a sixth score.
- Open-source tools are scored on repository signals; commercial tools on their published changelog. Ranks compare tools within one category and one profile and need at least five measured peers; the overall standing needs three ranked dimensions. Best-in-breed or consolidator is a shape, not a quality, and is never scored.
Release-note detail over time
See how much detail Acunetix Premium puts in its release notes, quarter by quarter, and compare it with tracked tools in the same category. This history uses up to ten retained, reviewed notes per tool; sparse or blank older quarters may reflect that limit.
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Commercials
pricing & packaging history · Acunetix (Invicti) vendor page17 readings of Acunetix (Invicti)'s pricing page since Oct 2021, with 2 relaunches of its plan lineup and 2 changes to what its plans include — each one dated, compared with the reading before it, and explained for someone buying the tool.
Pricing and packaging history is included with Researcher and Business. See how every vendor we track sells, and how that has changed over time, using data we don't publish anywhere else.
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Each offering on the pricing page links to its own page of plans, read at its latest capture.
Plan relaunches
Plans, prices and descriptions are quoted from the vendor's own pricing page as we read it on each date. A plan missing from a later reading is shown as no longer listed on the page — a statement about the page, not the product. Readings that failed to show any plans are left out rather than read as a change.
Website history
acunetix.com, every changeAcunetix (Invicti)'s home, pricing and product pages and 21 more pages as they looked each month from September 2021 to October 2026: 38 renders, 6 changes of tagline or palette. Step through them, play them, or put any two months side by side.
Website history is included with Researcher and Business.
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Rebranding timeline
Dates bound when a change appeared between captures. Possible rebrands are AI suggestions; a redesign alone does not establish a rebrand.
Coverage
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What Acunetix Premium connects to, runs on and detects, read from its release notes and docs. So far: 2 new vulnerability checks.
2 changes, tracked since Oct 28, 2026.
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Oct 312026
new Node.js Brotli Decoder Memory Corruption RCE/DoS (Node2Shell)
With CVE-2026-111497
Added detection for Node.js Brotli Decoder Memory Corruption RCE/DoS (Node2Shell, CVE-2026-111497)
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Oct 282026
new Detection for Node2Shell (CVE-2026-111497)
With Node.js Brotli decoder
The latest release includes Invicti detection for Node2Shell (CVE-2026-111497), a Node.js Brotli decoder memory corruption RCE/DoS flaw.
Nothing first seen in this window. That doesn't mean Acunetix Premium shipped nothing, only that we found no record of it.
How we count
Read from 2 of 2 release notes and docs updates we hold for Acunetix Premium. "First seen" is the earliest note that names something; "last" is the latest. Our history may start partway through Acunetix Premium's life, so an old integration can show a recent first-seen date.
Each change counts once: "added 40 checks" is one line, so the numbers measure how often coverage moves, not how big the catalogue is or how well it detects.
Releases
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- October 20262
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