The v12 engine introduced a headless Chrome crawler that mimicked a real user’s browser. In the 120180911134 build, the developers fixed a critical memory leak that plagued earlier v12 releases. The result? Scans that previously crashed on 5,000-page e-commerce sites now completed with 99.9% stability. This reliability is the hallmark of "extra quality."
SQL injection remains the number one risk on the OWASP Top 10. The extra quality build refined Acunetix’s inferential SQL detection. It moved beyond simple error-based SQLi to blind and out-of-band (OOB) SQL injection using DNS and HTTP exfiltration. In independent benchmarks from late 2018, this build identified 15% more SQLi variants than competitive scanners like Nessus or Nikto. The v12 engine introduced a headless Chrome crawler
By late 2018, Acunetix had matured into version 11.x (and previews of 12). The focus was no longer just on checking for SQLi or XSS. The "extra quality" came from three core engineering decisions: Scans that previously crashed on 5,000-page e-commerce sites
This is the "secret sauce." When you deploy the AcuSensor agent on the target web server: It moved beyond simple error-based SQLi to blind