wafw00f
WAFW00F allows one to identify and fingerprint Web Application Firewall (WAF) products protecting a website. (by EnableSecurity)
ModSecurity
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. It has a robust event-based programming language which provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis. (by owasp-modsecurity)
| wafw00f | ModSecurity | |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 25 | |
| 5,602 | 8,736 | |
| 1.4% | 2.0% | |
| 6.4 | 9.0 | |
| 4 months ago | 29 days ago | |
| Python | C++ | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wafw00f
Posts with mentions or reviews of wafw00f.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-09-18.
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6 Essential WebRTC Security Best Practices for 2025
The most notable vendor doing such vulnerability and penetration testing for VoIP and WebRTC is likely Enable Security - be sure to subscribe to their newsletter for more security advice around communication technologies.
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5 Best Free and Open Source WAF for 2025
Link: wafw00f on GitHub
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Top Open-Source WAF Projects: Secure Your Website with the Best Tools
Official GitHub: wafw00f Stars: 5.1K
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wafw00f VS wafme0w - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 8 Dec 2022
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Python Scanner, Faster than Nmap.
I am thinking about implementation of https://github.com/EnableSecurity/wafw00f.
ModSecurity
Posts with mentions or reviews of ModSecurity.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-08-26.
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Comparison on Six Self-Hosted WAF
Coraza and ModSecurity have a high detection rate, but they are not adapted to reality scenarios, resulting in too many false positives.
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Top Open-Source WAF Projects: Secure Your Website with the Best Tools
Official GitHub: ModSecurity Stars: 8K
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Why SafeLine Might Be the Best Free WAF
SafeLine vs ModSecurity
- Recommended free and open-source WAF
- Recommended free and open-source WAF for 2024.
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Install Modsecurity + OWASP CRS for Nginx Webserver on Centos 7
cd /opt && sudo git clone https://github.com/owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity.git cd ModSecurity sudo git submodule init sudo git submodule update sudo ./build.sh sudo ./configure sudo make sudo make install
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Anybody using Crowdsec?
First of all, if you have any experience with Traefik, I'd suggest you to do the reverse proxy stuff with it and install the Crowdsec instance along it. As I didn't have experience using Traefik I went with NPM but now I guess it would have been easier considering the research I had to do... Another reason is, I wanted to implement a geo block and/or another security layer by using ModSecurity (https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity ) besides Crowdsec too. Afaik Traefik has a plugin that integrates ModSecurity easily - unless NPM.
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Has anyone tried this on Blackboard online exams??
I don't know about Blackboard, but Moodle will allow quizzes to be run in popups that block most extensions from working; lockdown browsers will block such extensions; and, if you have access to the server, a modified firewall (e.g., ModSecurity) may\* allow blocking this and similar extensions.
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Ask HN: What's a good open-source alternative to Cloudflare?
> ModSecurity for WAF: https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity
This might be of interest to some: https://www.modsecurity.org/
> Trustwave is announcing the End-of-Life (EOL) of our support for ModSecurity effective July 1, 2024. We will then hand over the maintenance of ModSecurity code back to the open-source community.
Probably not too big of a deal, though.
Also, this might be useful: https://owasp.org/www-project-modsecurity-core-rule-set/
Though there has been some critique of ModSecurity and that ruleset in the past, as something dated and with false positives.
Anyone have any good alternatives?
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WAF with reverse proxy
Is there a reason no one hasn't made a Docker template for OWASP Coraza (https://github.com/corazawaf/coraza) or ModSecurity (https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity) for the use of a reverse proxy?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wafw00f and ModSecurity you can also consider the following projects:
Awesome-WAF - 🔥 Web-application firewalls (WAFs) from security standpoint.
ModSecurity-nginx - ModSecurity v3 Nginx Connector
openrasp - 🔥Open source RASP solution
crowdsec - CrowdSec - the open-source and participative security solution offering crowdsourced protection against malicious IPs and access to the most advanced real-world CTI.
RollerScanner - RollerScanner — Fast Port Scanner Written On Python
coraza - OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library