w3af is Web application attack and Audit Framework. This project is currently hosted at SourceForge. For further information, you may also want to visit w3af SourceForge project page.

- Proxy
- Proxy auth ( basic and digest )
- Site auth ( basic and digest )
- Gracefully handle timeouts
- UserAgent faking
- Add custom headers to requests
- Cookie handling
- Local cache for GET and HEAD requests
- Local dns cache, this will speed up scannings. Only one request is made to the DNS server
- Keep-alive support fot http and https connections
- File upload using multipart POST requests
- SSL certificate support

- SQL injection detection
- XSS detection
- SSI detection
- Local file include detection
- Remote file include detection
- Buffer Overflow detection
- Format String bugs detection
- OS Commanding detection
- Response Splitting detection
- LDAP Injection detection
- Basic Authentication bruteforce
- File upload inside webrot
- htaccess LIMIT misconfiguration
- SSL certificate validation
- XPATH injection detection
- unSSL (HTTPS documents can be fetched using HTTP)
- dav

- Pykto, a nikto port to python
- Hmap, http fingerprinting.
- fingerGoogle, finds valid user accounts in google.
- googleSpider, a spider that uses google.
- webSpider, a classic web spider.
- robotsReader
- urlFuzzer
- serverHeader, fetches server header
- allowedMethods, gets a list of allowed HTTP methods.
- crossDomain, get and parse the flash file crossdomain.xml
- error404page, generate a regular expression to match 404 pages.
- sitemapReader, read googles sitemap.xml and parse it.
- spiderMan, using a localproxy and a human, find new URLs for auditing.
- webDiff, find differences between a local and a remote directory.
- wsdlFinder, find and parse WSDL and DISCO files.

- collectCookies
- directoryIndexing
- findComments
- pathDisclosure
- strangeHeaders
- grep for pages using ajax and report them
- domXss, find DOM cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
- errorPages, search for eror pages that are too descriptive.
- fileUpload, find forms with file upload capabilities.
- getMails
- http authentication detection
- objects detection
- privateIP disclosure detection
- wsdlGreper, greps every page searching for WSDL documents.

- davShell
- fileUploadShell
- googleProxy
- localFileReader
- mysqlWebShell
- osCommandingShell
- remoteFileIncludeShell
- rfiProxy
- sqlmap
- xssBeef