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Detection · v5.0

DAST for applications that stopped being pages

GraphQL, WebSocket and single-page application scanners ship together, so the parts of a modern application a crawler never reached are now tested like the rest of it.

Version
5.0
Released
February 3, 2026
New features
3
Category
Detection

What's new

Features and improvements in this update

New features

3
  • GraphQL scanner

    Schema is recovered by introspection or inferred where introspection is disabled, then every query and mutation is tested for authorisation gaps, injection, batching abuse and query depth exhaustion.

  • WebSocket scanner

    The handshake, origin validation and per-message authorisation are tested, and messages are fuzzed after connection, the point at which most WebSocket implementations stop checking anything.

  • SPA-aware crawling

    Client-rendered routes are discovered by executing the application rather than parsing HTML, so React, Vue and Angular applications no longer present as a single page with no links.

Improvements

2
  • Authenticated session handling for SPAs

    Token refresh, silent re-authentication and storage-based sessions are handled during long scans, which removes the failure mode where an authenticated scan quietly becomes an unauthenticated one halfway through.

  • API schema import

    OpenAPI and GraphQL schema files can be supplied directly, so endpoints that are never linked from the UI are still tested.

Benefits

What it changes for you

Stated as work removed rather than capability added, the only version of a benefit that can be checked.

  • The untested half of your application gets tested

    For most teams the GraphQL endpoint and the SPA routes are where the sensitive operations live, and they were exactly the parts a traditional crawler could not enumerate.

  • Authorisation gaps found per operation

    GraphQL concentrates authorisation decisions into resolvers. Testing per query and mutation finds the resolver that forgot, which schema review reliably misses.

  • Fewer scans that silently do nothing

    Session handling failures used to produce clean reports for the wrong reason. Detecting and recovering the session means a clean report now means something.

Upgrade

Getting it

Getting this update

Included in 5.0.0. The SPA crawler requires a browser runtime on the scanning host; the GraphQL and WebSocket scanners have no additional dependency.

pip install --upgrade aiptx

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