Wapiti – web-application vulnerability scanner

Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your websites or web applications.

It performs “black-box” scans (it does not study the source code) of the web application by crawling the webpages of the deployed webapp, looking for scripts and forms where it can inject data.

This is free and open source software.

The software’s modules offer the following features:

• SQL Injections (Error based, boolean based, time based) and XPath Injections.
• Cross Site Scripting (XSS) reflected and permanent.
• File disclosure detection (local and remote include, require, fopen, readfile….).
• Command Execution detection (eval(), system(), passtru()…).
• XXE (Xml eXternal Entity) injection.
• CRLF Injection.
• Search for potentially dangerous files on the server.
• Bypass of weak htaccess configurations.
• Search for copies (backup) of scripts on the server.
• Shellshock.
• Folder and file enumeration (DirBuster like).
• Server Side Request Forgery (through use of an external Wapiti website).
• Open Redirects.
• Detection of uncommon HTTP methods (like PUT).
• Basic CSP Evaluator.
• Brute Force login form (using a dictionary list).
• Checking HTTP security headers.
• Checking cookie security flags (secure and httponly flags).
• Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) basic detection.
• Fingerprinting of web applications using the Wappalyzer database.
• Enumeration of WordPress and Drupal modules.
• Detection of subdomain takeovers vulnerabilities.
• Log4Shell vulnerability detection.
• Check for TLS misconfiguration and vulnerabilities.

Features include:

• Generates vulnerability reports in various formats (HTML, XML, JSON, TXT, CSV).
• Can suspend and resume a scan or an attack (session mechanism using sqlite3 databases).
• Can give you colors in the terminal to highlight vulnerabilities.
• Different levels of verbosity.
• Fast and easy way to activate/deactivate attack modules.
• Adding a payload can be as easy as adding a line to a text file.
• Configurable number of concurrent tasks to perform HTTP requests.

Website: wapiti-scanner.github.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Nicolas Surribas
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Wapiti is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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