# Nessus Parser

### References

* <https://github.com/interference-security/nessus_parser>
* <http://www.melcara.com/archives/253>

### Nessus Parser

This is a program to parse a series of Nessus XMLv2 files into a XLSX file. The data from the XML file is placed into a series of tabs to for easier review and reporting. New features with this edition are better reporting of policy plugin families, user account reporting, summary graphs, and a home page with summary data.

### Install dependencies

```
cpan install XML::TreePP Data::Dumper Math::Round Excel::Writer::XLSX Data::Table Excel::Writer::XLSX::Chart Getopt::Std
```

### Script

{% embed url="<https://gist.github.com/smhuda/be2538f4ece74bc05429d209529b76bd>" %}


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