W3AF ported to FreeBSD

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In: Application Scanner , Penetration testing & Ethical Hacking , w3af

18 March 2010

w3af, is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The w3af core and it’s plugins are fully written in python. The project has more than 130 plugins, which check for SQL injection, cross site scripting (xss), local and remote file inclusion and much

Sofian Brabez, our FreeBSD expert, has updated the FreeBSD port of w3af to the 1.0-rc2 version and commited it to FreeBSD ports sources tree. If you’re using FreeBSD, now you have one more reason to use w3af and make your life easier when hacking web applications.

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Framework features

  • urllib2 wrapper
  • Output Management
  • Web Service support
  • HTTP headers fuzzing
  • IPC
  • Session saving
  • Fuzzer
  • HTML / WML parsing
  • Support of Plugins

Post scriptum

Compliance Mandates

  • Application Scanner :

    PCI/DSS 6.3, SOX A12.4, GLBA 16 CFR 314.4(b) and (2), HIPAA 164.308(a)(1)(i), FISMA RA-5, SA-11, SI-2, ISO 27001/27002 12.6, 15.2.2

  • Penetration testing & Ethical Hacking :

    PCI DSS 11.3, SOX A13.3, GLBA 16 CFR Part 314.4 (c), HIPAA 164.308(a)(8), FISMA RA-5, SI-2, ISO 27001/27002 12.6, 15.2.2


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