Configure Credentials Settings in a Tenable Web App Scanning Scan

Required Tenable Web App Scanning User Role: Scan Manager or Administrator

Before you begin:

  • (Cookie authentication) Determine the cookie authentication credentials for the web application you want to scan.
Note: The Tenable-provided Selenium extension is no longer supported. The Edge and Firefox extensions provided by Selenium directly are supported. Selenium-provided packages running outside of browsers are also supported.

To configure credentials settings in a Tenable Web App Scanning scan:

  1. Create or edit a scan.
  2. Click Credentials.

    The credentials details appear.

  3. Next to Add Credentials, click the Add button.

    The Select Credential Type plane appears.

  4. Do one of the following:

  5. Add user permissions.
  6. Click Save to save the credentials changes.

    Tenable Web App Scanning closes the settings plane and adds the credentials to the credentials table for the scan.

    If you created new credentials, Tenable Web App Scanning adds the credentials to the credential manager.

  7. Click Save to save the scan changes.