OWASP WAP-Web Application Protection

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Contributors

OWASP WAP - Web Application Protection is brought to you by OWASP, a free and open software security community focusing on improving the security of software. Our goal with OWASP WAP project is to build secure software, by the detection of web application vulnerabilities and removing of them by the correction of web application source code.

OWASP WAP - Web Application Protection project is led by Ibéria Medeiros, a software security developer and enthusiast.

Volunteers

The project is open source and who want to join to the development team, please contact the project leader by sending her an email.

The main goals are:

1. Demonstrate using the tool that there is a lack of software security in the development of web applications,
2. Help programmers to learn the need of secure codding practices, which are these practices and how they are implemented.
3. Help programmers learn to build secure software.
4. Become a test bed for analyzing the QoS security of source code of web application.
5. Become a tool to teach software security in web application in a class room/lab environment.
6. Attract people to extend the WAP tool to detect and correct new types of vulnerabilities,

The phases of development of the WAP tool:

1. Build a PHP parser to create an abstract syntax tree (AST).
2. Detect candidates vulnerabilities using taint analysis under the AST.
3. Predict if the candidates vulnerabilities are false positives or not, using for this data mining with a defined training data set.
4. Correct the source code, removing the real vulnerabilities inserting fixes in the right places of the source code.
5. Output the results: vulnerabilities found, its correction and the new corrected files; and the false positives predicted.

Involvement in the development and promotion of OWASP WAP is actively encouraged! You do not have to be a security expert in order to contribute. Some of the ways you can help:

• Spread the word - Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or any other communication platform.
• Write about OWASP WAP on your web site, book or blog.
• Mention it in your resume - It helps you, it helps the company and it helps us and thus everybody wins.
• Make tutorials/videos of WAP tool in languages you know of.
• Include it in your training materials, talks, laboratories etc.

However, you can also help if you wish extending the WAP tool with a new module or even improving some part (s) of it.

The delivery of the project is a zip or tar.gz file containing:

• a jar file with the WAP tool;
• plain text file with the indications how to install and use the tool;
• vulnerable PHP example files to demonstrate how to work the tool;
• the source code of the tool.

The tool works in different operating systems -- Linux, OSx and Windows -- and is available at http://awap.sourceforge.net

The requirements to run the tool are only the JRE (Java Runtime Enviroment), which can be downloaded at http://www.oracle.com. No installation required.