xssmap
Intelligent XSS detection tool that uses human techniques for looking for reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities (by secdec)
bandit
Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code. (by PyCQA)
| xssmap | bandit | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | |
| 150 | 7,151 | |
| 1.3% | 2.1% | |
| 10.0 | 8.4 | |
| over 2 years ago | 3 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
xssmap
Posts with mentions or reviews of xssmap.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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bandit
Posts with mentions or reviews of bandit.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-20.
- Bandit: Find common security issues in Python code
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🔒 Bandit: Python Static Application Security Testing Guide
Bandit Documentation: https://bandit.readthedocs.io OWASP Source Code Analysis Tools: https://owasp.org/www-community/Source_Code_Analysis_Tools Python Security Best Practices: https://docs.python.org/3/library/security.html GitHub Actions: https://docs.github.com/en/actions
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🛡️ How to Use Bandit as a SAST Tool for Your Python App
#.pre-commit-config.yaml repos: - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit rev: 1.7.5 hooks: - id: bandit args: ['-ll', '-ii']
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Polyglot: Lua (Part 0)
Lua supports most of this primarily through community packages. luarocks is the Lua package manager. Lua does not ship with a unit testing framework by default, but the community seems to have selected luaunit as the defacto testing library. LSP and linting support is provided through the lua-language-server and code formatting is handled through stylua. However, I can't find tooling similar to Python's bandit to perform security audits. I believe this to be an open area of Lua library development.
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Enhance Your Project Quality with These Top Python Libraries
Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code. It was developed by the OpenStack Security Project and is a great addition to any serious Python project.
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Creating a DevSecOps pipeline with Jenkins — Part 1
For the SAST stage, I used SonarQube tool. SonarQube is an open-source platform developed by SonarSource for continuous inspection of code quality to perform automatic reviews with static analysis of code to detect bugs and code smells on more than 30 programming languages. I preferred SonarQube instead of other SAST tools because it has a detailed documentation and plugins about integration with Jenkins and SonarQube works with Java projects pretty well. Of course you can similar multi-language-supported tools such as Semgrep or language-specific tools such as Bandit.
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Enhance your python code security using bandit
repos: - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit rev: 1.7.7 hooks: - id: bandit args: ["-c", "pyproject.toml", "-r", "."] additional_dependencies: ["bandit[toml]"]
- Show HN: Codemodder – A new codemod library for Java and Python
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A Tale of Two Kitchens - Hypermodernizing Your Python Code Base
On the other hand, Bandit is a dedicated security scanner designed to target critical security concerns such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting exploits. It meticulously scrutinizes the codebase to identify and alert developers about possible security breaches or vulnerabilities, thus fortifying the code against potential exploitation.
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The Uncreative Software Engineer's Compendium to Testing
Bandit: is a tool designed for Python applications to analyse your code for potential security issues like insecure use of functions, hardcoded password and much more.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing xssmap and bandit you can also consider the following projects:
dheater - D(HE)ater is a proof of concept implementation of the D(HE)at attack (CVE-2002-20001) through which denial-of-service can be performed by enforcing the Diffie-Hellman key exchange. (read-only clone of the original GitLab project)
safety - Safety checks Python dependencies for known security vulnerabilities and suggests the proper remediations for vulnerabilities detected.
masscan_as_a_service - masscan as a service
Flake8 - flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code.
oxo - OXO is a security scanning orchestrator for the modern age.
flake8-bandit - Automated security testing using bandit and flake8.