Nessus Plugin Host Extractor

This is a Python script that parses a .nessus file (XML format from Tenable Nessus) and extracts all hosts and ports where a specified plugin ID was detected.

🧰 Requirements

• Python 3.x
• No external dependencies (uses built-in xml.etree.ElementTree)

📦 Usage

python NessusPluginHosts.py <filename.nessus> <plugin_id>

also have option to not include port --no-port

useage examples

# Default line-delimited
python nessus_plugin_hosts.py scan.nessus 19506

# Default line-delimited, no port
python nessus_plugin_hosts.py scan.nessus 19506 --no-port

# Space-delimited
python nessus_plugin_hosts.py scan.nessus 19506 --space-delim

# Comma-delimited
python nessus_plugin_hosts.py scan.nessus 19506 --comma-delim

# Comma-delimited, no port
python nessus_plugin_hosts.py scan.nessus 19506 --comma-delim --no-port

List Identified Services

Looks at the Nessus plugin 22964 and outputs the services by service type.

python IdentifiedServices.py scan.nessus --no-port --comma-delim