W3af is the acronym for web application attack and audit framework, and is an open source vulnerabilities scanner that it can be used for auditing web security.
W3af scanner vulnerabilities in web applications
W3af overview
W3af is a security audit tool for web applications, it is divided into several modules, such as Attack, Audit, Exploit, Discovery, Evasion and Brute Force. These modules in W3af come with several secondary modules as, for example, we can select the XSS option in the Audit module if we need to test Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the web application, assuming that it is necessary to perform a certain Audit.
The main feature of W3af is that its audit system is based entirely on plugins written...
