w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project’s goal is to create a framework to find and exploit web application vulnerabilities that is easy to use and extend.
The w3af core and it’s plugins are fully written in python. The project has more than 130 plugins, which check for SQL injection, cross site scripting (xss), local and remote file inclusion and much
Finally it’s out of BETA and RC and there’s now a stable core for the codebase.
New in v1.1
- Considerably increased performance by implementing gzip encoding
- Enhanced embedded bug report system using Trac’s XMLRPC
- Fixed hundreds of bugs
- Fixed critical bug in auto-update feature
- Enhanced integration with other tools (bug fixed and addedmore info to the file)
You can download w3af v1.1 here:
Or you can read more here.