wafw00f
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- BSD
- Programming language
- Python
- Authors
- Sandro Gauci
- Wendel G. Henrique
- Latest release
- 0.9.5
- Latest release date
Project health
Links
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Usage and audience
wafw00f is commonly used for application fingerprinting, information gathering, penetration testing, reconnaissance, or security assessment. Target users for this tool are pentesters and security professionals.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
Wafw00f is known to work on Linux.
Dependencies
Several dependencies are required to use wafw00f.
- BeautifulSoup4
- pluginbase
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a WAF detection tool and application fingerprinting tool.