OWASP Zed Attack Proxy Project

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The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications.

It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who a new to penetration testing.

ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually.

The current version of ZAP is 1.1.0 and it can be downloaded from the Google Code page.

Some of ZAP's features:

Some of ZAP's characteristics:

Easy to install (just requires java 1.6)
Ease of use a priority
Comprehensive help pages
Under active development
Open source
Free (no paid for 'Pro' version)
Cross platform
Involvement actively encouraged

ZAP is a fork of the well regarded Paros Proxy.

Roadmap

Release 1.1.0

This release adds the following main features:

Brute Force scanner c/o the OWASP DirBuster project
Port scanner
Active Scan tab
Enhancements to the Spider tab
Smartcard support c/o Andiparos
A new 'Attack' menu
More internationalisation (all main tabs and menu items)
Localisation: Brazilian Portuguese, German, Polish and Spanish

Release 1.2.0

This release is still being planned, but is likely to include:

Fuzzing (using components from JBroFuzz)
Further improvements to the passive and active automated scanners
Further improvements the Spider

Get Involved

Involvement in the development of ZAP is actively encouraged!

You do not have to be a security expert in order to contribute.

Some of the ways you can help:

Feature Requests

Please raise new feature requests as enhancement requests here: http://code.google.com/p/zaproxy/issues/list

If there are existing requests you are also interested in then please 'star' them - that way we can see which features people are most interested in and can prioritize them accordingly.