Descriptions plugins and more items

[felipeflorian]

Hi! I want to know if it is possible to get the description or see also attributes that are shown in Nessu. It would be very helpful.

[damian-krawczyk]

Hi @felipeflorian yes, it's possible. You can take any element from ReportItem (reported plugin result within nessus file), for see also and description you can do it as shown below:

      see_also = nfr.plugin.report_item_value(report_item, 'see_also')
      description = nfr.plugin.report_item_value(report_item, 'description')

See this example:

nessus-file-reader/examples/nfr-plugin-example.py

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	import nessus_file_reader as nfr
	nessus_scan_file = './your_nessus_file.nessus'
	root = nfr.file.nessus_scan_file_root_element(nessus_scan_file)
	for report_host in nfr.scan.report_hosts(root):
	report_items_per_host = nfr.host.report_items(report_host)
	for report_item in report_items_per_host:
	plugin_id = int(nfr.plugin.report_item_value(report_item, 'pluginID'))
	risk_factor = nfr.plugin.report_item_value(report_item, 'risk_factor')
	plugin_name = nfr.plugin.report_item_value(report_item, 'pluginName')
	print('\t', plugin_id, ' \t\t\t', risk_factor, ' \t\t\t', plugin_name)