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what is this project?
Name: OWASP Testing Project (home page)
Purpose:
  • The OWASP Testing Guide includes a "best practice" penetration testing framework which users can implement in their own organizations and a "low level" penetration testing guide that describes techniques for testing most common web application and web service security issues.
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0
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Mailing list: Mailing List Archives
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current release
Testing Guide V 4.0 - 15th February 2013

The new project is available here - (no download available)

Release description:
  • Review all the control numbers to adhere to the OWASP Common numbering,
  • Review all the sections in v3,
  • Create a more readable guide, eliminating some sections that are not really useful,
  • Insert new testing techniques: HTTP Verb tampering, HTTP Parameter Pollutions, etc.,
  • Rationalize some sections as Session Management Testing,
  • Create a new section: Client side security and Firefox extensions testing.
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last reviewed release
Testing Guide V 3.0 - December 2008 - (download)
Release description: The OWASP Testing Guide v3 is a 349 page book; we have split the set of active tests in 9 sub-categories for a total of 66 controls to test during the Web Application Testing activity.
Rating: Greenlight.pngGreenlight.pngGreenlight.png Stable Release - Assessment Details


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