Web Application Penetration Testing Tools for Penetration Tester

                 In the past, many popular websites have been hacked. Hackers are now active and always try to hack websites and leak data. This is why security testing of web applications is very important. And here comes the role of web application security scanners. Web Application Security Scanner is a software program which performs automatic black box testing on a web application and identifies security vulnerabilities. Scanners do not access the source code, they only perform functional testing and try to find security vulnerabilities.
Various paid and free web application vulnerability scanners are available. In this post, we are listing the best free open source web application vulnerability scanners. I am adding the tools in random order. So please do not think it is a ranking of tools.

I am only adding open source tools which can be used to find security vulnerabilities in web applications. I am not adding tools to find server vulnerabilities. And do not confuse with free tools and open source tools. Because there are various other tools available for free, but they do not provide source code to other developers. Open source tools are those which offer source codes to developers so that developers can modify the tool or help in further development.
These are the best open source web application penetration testing tools:

Test sites / testing grounds

SPI Dynamics (live) – http://zero.webappsecurity.com/
Cenzic (live) – http://crackme.cenzic.com/
Watchfire (live) – http://demo.testfire.net/
Acunetix (live) – http://testphp.acunetix.com/ http://testasp.acunetix.com http://testaspnet.acunetix.com
WebMaven / Buggy Bank – http://www.mavensecurity.com/webmaven
Foundstone SASS tools – http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources-free-tools.asp
Updated HackmeBank – http://www.o2-ounceopen.com/technical-info/2008/12/8/updated-version-of-hacmebank.html
OWASP WebGoat – http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_WebGoat_Project
OWASP SiteGenerator – http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Owasp_SiteGenerator
Stanford SecuriBench – http://suif.stanford.edu/~livshits/securibench/
SecuriBench Micro – http://suif.stanford.edu/~livshits/work/securibench-micro/

HTTP proxying / editing

WebScarab – https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebScarab_Project
Burp – http://www.portswigger.net/
Paros – http://www.parosproxy.org/
Fiddler – http://www.fiddlertool.com/
Web Proxy Editor – http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/companion/0-7356-2187-X/
Pantera – http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Pantera_Web_Assessment_Studio_Project
Suru – http://www.sensepost.com/research/suru/
httpedit (curses-based) – http://www.neutralbit.com/en/rd/httpedit/
Charles – http://www.xk72.com/charles/
Odysseus – http://www.bindshell.net/tools/odysseus
Burp, Paros, and WebScarab for Mac OS X – http://www.corsaire.com/downloads/
Web-application scanning tool from `Network Security Tools’/O’Reilly – http://examples.oreilly.com/networkst/
JS Commander – http://jscmd.rubyforge.org/
Ratproxy – http://code.google.com/p/ratproxy/

RSnake’s XSS cheat sheet based-tools, webapp fuzzing, and encoding tools

Wfuzz – http://www.edge-security.com/wfuzz.php
ProxMon – http://www.isecpartners.com/proxmon.html
Wapiti – http://wapiti.sourceforge.net/
Grabber – http://rgaucher.info/beta/grabber/
XSSScan – http://darkcode.ath.cx/scanners/XSSscan.py
CAL9000 – http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_CAL9000_Project
HTMangLe – http://www.fishnetsecurity.com/Tools/HTMangLe/publish.htm
JBroFuzz – http://sourceforge.net/projects/jbrofuzz
XSSFuzz – http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20060921/xssfuzz-released/
Overlong UTF – http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/companion/0-7356-2187-X/
[TGZ] MielieTool (SensePost Research) – http://packetstormsecurity.org/UNIX/utilities/mielietools-v1.0.tgz
RegFuzzer: test your regular expression filter – http://rgaucher.info/b/index.php/post/2007/05/26/RegFuzzer%3A-Test-your-regular-expression-filter
screamingCobra – http://www.dachb0den.com/projects/screamingcobra.html
SPIKE and SPIKE Proxy – http://immunitysec.com/resources-freesoftware.shtml
RFuzz – http://rfuzz.rubyforge.org/
WebFuzz – http://www.codebreakers-journal.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=112&Itemid=99999999
TestMaker – http://www.pushtotest.com/Docs/downloads/features.html
ASP Auditor – http://michaeldaw.org/projects/asp-auditor-v2/
WSTool – http://wstool.sourceforge.net/
Web Hack Control Center (WHCC) – http://ussysadmin.com/whcc/
Web Text Converter – http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/companion/0-7356-2187-X/
HackBar (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3899/
Net-Force Tools (NF-Tools, Firefox Add-on) – http://www.net-force.nl/library/downloads/
PostIntercepter (Greasemonkey script) – http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/743

HTTP general testing / fingerprinting

Wbox: HTTP testing tool – http://hping.org/wbox/
ht://Check – http://htcheck.sourceforge.net/
Mumsie – http://www.lurhq.com/tools/mumsie.html
WebInject – http://www.webinject.org/
Torture.pl Home Page – http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/torture/
JoeDog’s Seige – http://www.joedog.org/JoeDog/Siege/
OPEN-LABS: metoscan (http method testing) – http://www.open-labs.org/
Load-balancing detector – http://ge.mine.nu/lbd.html
HMAP – http://ujeni.murkyroc.com/hmap/
Net-Square: httprint – http://net-square.com/httprint/
Wpoison: http stress testing – http://wpoison.sourceforge.net/
Net-square: MSNPawn – http://net-square.com/msnpawn/index.shtml
hcraft: HTTP Vuln Request Crafter – http://druid.caughq.org/projects/hcraft/
rfp.labs: LibWhisker – http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/lw.asp
Nikto – http://www.cirt.net/code/nikto.shtml
twill – http://twill.idyll.org/
DirBuster – http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_DirBuster_Project
[ZIP] DFF Scanner – http://security-net.biz/files/dff/DFF.zip
[ZIP] The Elza project – http://packetstormsecurity.org/web/elza-1.4.7-beta.zip http://www.stoev.org/elza.html
HackerFox and Hacking Addons Bundled: Portable Firefox with web hacking addons bundled –http://sf.net/projects/hackfox

Browser-based HTTP tampering / editing / replaying

TamperIE – http://www.bayden.com/Other/
isr-form – http://www.infobyte.com.ar/developments.html
Modify Headers (Firefox Add-on) – http://modifyheaders.mozdev.org/
Tamper Data (Firefox Add-on) – http://tamperdata.mozdev.org/
UrlParams (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1290/
TestGen4Web (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1385/
DOM Inspector / Inspect This (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1806/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1913/
LiveHTTPHeaders / Header Monitor (Firefox Add-on) – http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/575/

Cookie editing / poisoning

[TGZ] stompy: session id tool – http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/stompy.tgz
Add’N Edit Cookies (AnEC, Firefox Add-on) – http://addneditcookies.mozdev.org/
CookieCuller (Firefox Add-on) – http://cookieculler.mozdev.org/
CookiePie (Firefox Add-on) – http://www.nektra.com/oss/firefox/extensions/cookiepie/
CookieSpy – http://www.codeproject.com/shell/cookiespy.asp
Cookies Explorer – http://www.dutchduck.com/Features/Cookies.aspx

Ajax and XHR scanning

Sahi – http://sahi.co.in/
scRUBYt – http://scrubyt.org/
jQuery – http://jquery.com/
jquery-include – http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/jquery-include
Sprajax – http://www.denimgroup.com/sprajax.html
Watir – http://wtr.rubyforge.org/
Watij – http://watij.com/
Watin – http://watin.sourceforge.net/
RBNarcissus – http://idontsmoke.co.uk/2005/rbnarcissus/
SpiderTest (Spider Fuzz plugin) – http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2007/2/21/the-fabulous-spider-fuzz-plugin
Javascript Inline Debugger (jasildbg) – http://jasildbg.googlepages.com/
Firebug Lite – http://www.getfirebug.com/lite.html
firewaitr – http://code.google.com/p/firewatir/

RSS extensions and caching

LiveLines (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/324/
rss-cache – http://www.dubfire.net/chris/projects/rss-cache/

SQL injection scanning

0×90.org: home of Absinthe, Mezcal, etc – http://0×90.org/releases.php
SQLiX – http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_SQLiX_Project
sqlninja: a SQL Server injection and takover tool – http://sqlninja.sourceforge.net/
JustinClarke’s SQL Brute – http://www.justinclarke.com/archives/2006/03/sqlbrute.html
BobCat – http://www.northern-monkee.co.uk/projects/bobcat/bobcat.html
sqlmap – http://sqlmap.sourceforge.net/
Scully: SQL Server DB Front-End and Brute-Forcer – http://www.sensepost.com/research/scully/
FG-Injector – http://www.flowgate.net/?lang=en&seccion=herramientas
PRIAMOS – http://www.priamos-project.com/

Web application security malware, backdoors, and evil code

W3AF: Web Application Attack and Audit Framework – http://w3af.sourceforge.net/
Jikto – http://busin3ss.name/jikto-in-the-wild/
XSS Shell – http://ferruh.mavituna.com/article/?1338
XSS-Proxy – http://xss-proxy.sourceforge.net
AttackAPI – http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/attackapi/
FFsniFF – http://azurit.elbiahosting.sk/ffsniff/
HoneyBlog’s web-based junkyard – http://honeyblog.org/junkyard/web-based/
BeEF – http://www.bindshell.net/tools/beef/
Firefox Extension Scanner (FEX) – http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/fex/
What is my IP address? – http://reglos.de/myaddress/
xRumer: blogspam automation tool – http://www.botmaster.net/movies/XFull.htm
SpyJax – http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/tools/spyjax/
Greasecarnaval – http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/greasecarnaval
Technika – http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/technika/
Load-AttackAPI bookmarklet – http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/load-attackapi-bookmarklet
MD’s Projects: JS port scanner, pinger, backdoors, etc – http://michaeldaw.org/my-projects/

Web application services that aid in web application security assessment

Netcraft – http://www.netcraft.net
AboutURL – http://www.abouturl.com/
The Scrutinizer – http://www.scrutinizethis.com/
net.toolkit – http://clez.net/
ServerSniff – http://www.serversniff.net/
Online Microsoft script decoder – http://www.greymagic.com/security/tools/decoder/
Webmaster-Toolkit – http://www.webmaster-toolkit.com/
myIPNeighbbors, et al –http://digg.com/security/MyIPNeighbors_Find_Out_Who_Else_is_Hosted_on_Your_Site_s_IP_Address
PHP charset encoding – http://h4k.in/encoding
data: URL testcases – http://h4k.in/dataurl

Browser-based security fuzzing / checking

Zalewski’s MangleMe – http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/mangle.cgi
hdm’s tools: Hamachi, CSSDIE, DOM-Hanoi, AxMan – http://metasploit.com/users/hdm/tools/
Peach Fuzzer Framework – http://peachfuzz.sourceforge.net/
TagBruteForcer – http://research.eeye.com/html/tools/RT20060801-3.html
PROTOS Test-Suite: c05-http-reply – http://www.ee.oulu.fi/research/ouspg/protos/testing/c05/http-reply/index.html
COMRaider – http://labs.idefense.com
bcheck – http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/
Stop-Phishing: Projects page – http://www.indiana.edu/~phishing/?projects
LinkScanner – http://linkscanner.explabs.com/linkscanner/default.asp
BrowserCheck – http://www.heise-security.co.uk/services/browsercheck/
Cross-browser Exploit Tests – http://www.jungsonnstudios.com/cool.php
Stealing information using DNS pinning demo – http://www.jumperz.net/index.php?i=2&a=1&b=7
Javascript Website Login Checker – http://ha.ckers.org/weird/javascript-website-login-checker.html
Mozilla Activex – http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm
Jungsonn’s Black Dragon Project – http://blackdragon.jungsonnstudios.com/
Mr. T (Master Recon Tool, includes Read Firefox Settings PoC) – http://ha.ckers.org/mr-t/
Vulnerable Adobe Plugin Detection For UXSS PoC – http://www.0×000000.com/?i=324
About Flash: is your flash up-to-date? – http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/
Test your installation of Java software – http://java.com/en/download/installed.jsp?detect=jre&try=1
WebPageFingerprint – Light-weight Greasemonkey Fuzzer – http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30285

Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Intrusion Detection (APIDS) rules and resources

APIDS on Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APIDS
PHP Intrusion Detection System (PHP-IDS) – http://php-ids.org/ http://code.google.com/p/phpids/
dotnetids – http://code.google.com/p/dotnetids/
Secure Science InterScout – http://www.securescience.com/home/newsandevents/news/interscout1.0.html
Remo: whitelist rule editor for mod_security – http://remo.netnea.com/
GotRoot: ModSecuirty rules – http://www.gotroot.com/tiki-index.php?page=mod_security+rules
The Web Security Gateway (WSGW) – http://wsgw.sourceforge.net/
mod_security rules generator – http://noeljackson.com/tools/modsecurity/
Mod_Anti_Tamper – http://www.wisec.it/projects.php?id=3
[TGZ] Automatic Rules Generation for Mod_Security – http://www.wisec.it/rdr.php?fn=/Projects/Rule-o-matic.tgz
AQTRONIX WebKnight – http://www.aqtronix.com/?PageID=99
Akismet: blog spam defense – http://akismet.com/
Samoa: Formal tools for securing web services – http://research.microsoft.com/projects/samoa/

Web services enumeration / scanning / fuzzing

WebServiceStudio2.0 – http://www.codeplex.com/WebserviceStudio
Net-square: wsChess – http://net-square.com/wschess/index.shtml
WSFuzzer – http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WSFuzzer_Project
SIFT: web method search tool – http://www.sift.com.au/73/171/sift-web-method-search-tool.htm
iSecPartners: WSMap, WSBang, etc – http://www.isecpartners.com/tools.html

Threat modeling

Microsoft Threat Analysis and Modeling Tool v2.1 (TAM) – http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=59888078-9daf-4e96-b7d1-944703479451&displaylang=en
Amenaza: Attack Tree Modeling (SecurITree) – http://www.amenaza.com/software.php
Octotrike – http://www.octotrike.org/

Add-ons for Firefox that help with general web application security

Web Developer Toolbar – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60/
Plain Old Webserver (POW) – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3002/
XML Developer Toolbar – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2897/
Public Fox – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3911/
XForms Buddy – http://beaufour.dk/index.php?sec=misc&pagename=xforms
MR Tech Local Install – http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/
Nightly Tester Tools – http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/buildid/index.html
IE Tab – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/
User-Agent Switcher – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/
ServerSwitcher – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2409/
HeaderMonitor – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/575/
RefControl – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/953/
refspoof – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/667/
No-Referrer – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1999/
LocationBar^2 – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4014/
SpiderZilla – http://spiderzilla.mozdev.org/
Slogger – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/143
Fire Encrypter – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3208/

Add-ons for Firefox that help with Javascript and Ajax web application security

Selenium IDE – http://www.openqa.org/selenium-ide/
Firebug – http://www.joehewitt.com/software/firebug/
Venkman – http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/
Chickenfoot – http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/
Greasemonkey – http://www.greasespot.net/
Greasemonkey compiler – http://www.letitblog.com/greasemonkey-compiler/
User script compiler – http://arantius.com/misc/greasemonkey/script-compiler
Extension Developer’s Extension (Firefox Add-on) – http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensiondev/
Smart Middle Click (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3885/

Bookmarklets that aid in web application security

RSnake’s security bookmarklets – http://ha.ckers.org/bookmarklets.html
BMlets – http://optools.awardspace.com/bmlet.html
Huge list of bookmarklets – http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/
Blummy: consists of small widgets, called blummlets, which make use of Javascript to provide rich functionality –http://www.blummy.com/
Bookmarklets every blogger should have – http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/10/bookmarklets_ev.html
Flat Bookmark Editing (Firefox Add-on) – http://n01se.net/chouser/proj/mozhack/
OpenBook and Update Bookmark (Firefox Add-ons) – http://www.chuonthis.com/extensions/

SSL certificate checking / scanning

[ZIP] THCSSLCheck –
[ZIP] Foundstone SSLDigger – http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/termsofuse.asp?file=ssldigger.zip
Cert Viewer Plus (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1964/

Honeyclients, Web Application, and Web Proxy honeypots

Honeyclient Project: an open-source honeyclient – http://www.honeyclient.org/trac/
HoneyC: the low-interaction honeyclient – http://honeyc.sourceforge.net/
Capture: a high-interaction honeyclient – http://capture-hpc.sourceforge.net/
Google Hack Honeypot – http://ghh.sourceforge.net/
PHP.Hop – PHP Honeynet Project – http://www.rstack.org/phphop/
SpyBye – http://www.monkey.org/~provos/spybye/
Honeytokens – http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1713

Footprinting for web application security

Evolution – http://www.paterva.com/evolution-e.html
GooSweep – http://www.mcgrewsecurity.com/projects/goosweep/
Aura: Google API Utility Tools – http://www.sensepost.com/research/aura/
Edge-Security tools – http://www.edge-security.com/soft.php
Fierce Domain Scanner – http://ha.ckers.org/fierce/
Googlegath – http://www.nothink.org/perl/googlegath/
Advanced Dork (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2144/
Passive Cache (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/977/
CacheOut! (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1453/
BugMeNot Extension (Firefox Add-on) – http://roachfiend.com/archives/2005/02/07/bugmenot/
TrashMail.net Extension (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1813/
DiggiDig (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2819/
Digger (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1467/

Browser Defenses

DieHard – http://www.diehard-software.org/
LocalRodeo (Firefox Add-on) – http://databasement.net/labs/localrodeo/
NoMoXSS – http://www.seclab.tuwien.ac.at/projects/jstaint/
Request Rodeo – http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/requestrodeo
FlashBlock (Firefox Add-on) – http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
CookieSafe (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2497
NoScript (Firefox Add-on) – http://www.noscript.net/
FormFox (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1579/
Adblock (Firefox Add-on) – http://adblock.mozdev.org/
httpOnly in Firefox (Firefox Add-on) – http://blog.php-security.org/archives/40-httpOnly-Cookies-in-Firefox-2.0.html
SafeCache (Firefox Add-on) – http://www.safecache.com/
SafeHistory (Firefox Add-on) – http://www.safehistory.com/
PrefBar (Firefox Add-on) – http://prefbar.mozdev.org/
All-in-One Sidebar (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1027/
QArchive.org web file checker (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4115/
Update Notified (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2098/
FireKeeper – http://firekeeper.mozdev.org/
Greasemonkey: XSS Malware Script Detector – http://yehg.net/lab/#tools.greasemonkey

Browser Privacy

TrackMeNot (Firefox Add-on) – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3173/
Privacy Bird – http://www.privacybird.com/

Application and protocol fuzzing (random instead of targeted)

Sulley – http://fuzzing.org/
taof: The Art of Fuzzing – http://sourceforge.net/projects/taof/
zzuf: multipurpose fuzzer – http://sam.zoy.org/zzuf/
autodafé: an act of software torture – http://autodafe.sourceforge.net/
EFS and GPF: Evolutionary Fuzzing System – http://www.appliedsec.com/resources.html

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