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OWASP Zed Attack Proxy Project

The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP)The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is one of the world’s most popular free security tools and is actively maintained by hundreds of international volunteers*. It can help you automatically find security vulnerabilities in your web applications while you are developing and testing your applications. It's also a great tool for experienced pentesters to use for manual security testing. ZAP 2.8.0 is now available! Getting StartedGet started with ZAP by exploring these guides and tutorial videos.
Features
Why use ZAP?
Supported Languages
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Contribute
Develop
If you fancy having a go at adding functionality to ZAP then please get in touch via the zaproxy-develop Google Group.
Again, you do not have to be a security expert to contribute code - working on ZAP could be great way to learn more about web application security!
If you actively contribute to ZAP then you will be invited to join the project.
- Developer Group - ask questions about the ZAP internals
- OpenHub - FOSS analytics
Localization
Are you fluent in another language? Can you help translate ZAP into that language?
You can use Crowdin to do that!
- Crowdin (GUI) - help translate the ZAP GUI
- Crowdin (User Guide) - help translate the ZAP User Guide
Bounty Source
BountySource - Vote on ZAP issues (you can also donate money here, but 10% taken out
Bug Bounty
Find us on Bugcrowd to starting hacking!
Feedback
Issues / Bugs
Have you had a problem using ZAP?
If so and its not already been logged then please report it
Feedback Forms
Please use the zaproxy-users Google Group for feedback:
- What do like?
- What don't you like?
- What features could be made easier to use?
- How could the help pages be improved?
Feature Requests
Please raise new feature requests as enhancement requests here: https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy/issues
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.
Roadmap
(Current) Release 2.8.0
ZAP 2.8.0 has been released (June 2019), this is a bug fix and enhancement release
For more details see https://github.com/zaproxy/zap-core-help/wiki/HelpReleases2_8_0
(Hopeful) Future Features
(Exciting) Possible Ideas
Talks
Social
Swag
All of the artwork for ZAP swag is released under the Creative Common License and can be downloaded from the zap-swag repo. You can of course use the artwork from this repo with any other online store that you like.
Shirts
T-shirts can be purchased from Cafepress
Stickers & More
A range of products can be purchased from Redbubble
News
- 2019/06/07 Version 2.8.0 released
- 2018/07/26 The ZAP Heads Up Display (HUD) revealed at Bay Area OWASP meetup
- 2017/11/28 Version 2.7.0 released
- 2017/03/29 Version 2.6.0 released
- 2017/02/11 ZAP came second in the Top Security Tools of 2016 as voted by ToolsWatch.org readers
- 2016/06/03 Version 2.5.0 released
- 2016/05/26 ZAP bug bounty program launched
- 2016/02/23 ZAP declared the Top Security Tool of 2015 as voted by ToolsWatch.org readers
- 2016/02/19 ZAP February newsletter published
- 2016/01/04 ZAP January newsletter published
- 2015/12/15 ZAP December newsletter published
- 2015/12/04 Version 2.4.3 released
- 2015/11/02 ZAP November newsletter published
- 2015/09/07 Version 2.4.2 released
- 2015/07/31 ZAP Scripting Competition launched
- 2015/07/30 Version 2.4.1 released
- 2015/05/05 ZAP featured in the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar
- 2015/04/14 Version 2.4.0 released
- 2015/01/14 ZAP came second in the Top Security Tools of 2014 as voted by ToolsWatch.org readers
- 2015/01/02 ZAP Community Scripts repo launched
- 2014/05/21 Version 2.3.1 released
- 2014/04/10 Version 2.3.0 released
- 2014/03/10 Hacking ZAP blog post series started: http://zaproxy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/hacking-zap-1-why-should-you.html
- 2014/02/17 ZAP included as one of the SourceForge projects of the week
- 2013/12/20 ZAP declared the Top Security Tool of 2013 as voted by ToolsWatch.org readers
- 2013/11/04 ZAP Evangelists initiative launched
- 2013/10/29 Simon won Best Project Leader WASPY Award
- 2013/09/27 Version 2.2.2 released
- 2013/09/11 Version 2.2.0 released
- 2013/07/29 New language file including support for Bosnian
- 2013/06/17 ZAP user questionnaire launched, now in both English and Spanish
- 2013/06/05 ZAP questions can now be asked on irc
- 2013/05/10 5 ZAP related projects accepted for Google Summer of Code
- 2013/04/18 Version 2.1.0 released
- 2013/01/30 Version 2.0.0 released
- 2012/11/27 Started a new zaproxy-test project of unit and integrations tests
- 2012/10/29 Adopted Crowdin for translations
- 2012/10/22 Started generating weekly releases
- 2012/10/12 ZAP Overview tutorial video published
- 2012/09/18 ZAP Gear Store goes live
- 2012/08/05 Version 1.4.1 released
- 2012/07/08 Version 1.4.0.1 downloaded over 15,000 times
- 2012/07/05 Python API released
- 2012/06/15 ZAP accepted for the OWASP Project Reboot
- 2012/06/13 Using ZAP for Security Regression tests video published
- 2012/06/04 Version 1.4.0.1 downloaded over 10,000 times
- 2012/05/28 Simon's Introduction to ZAP talk at App Sec USA becomes the most watched OWASP video on vimeo
- 2012/04/23 3 ZAP related Google Summer of Code 2012 projects accepted. To find out how these are progressing please see their wiki pages.
- 2012/04/23 OWASP ZAP SmartCard Project officially launched.
- 2012/04/08 Version 1.4.0.1 released
- 2012/02/10 Version 1.3.4 downloaded over 10,000 times
- 2012/02/01 OWASP ZAP is named the Toolsmith Tool of the Year for 2011!
- 2010/09/06 The very first ZAP release, 1.0.0 announced via bugtraq
ZAP is developed by a worldwide team of volunteers.
Core Team
- Simon Bennetts (@psiinon)
- thc202
- Rick Mitchell (Kingthorin)
- David Scrobonia (@david_scrobonia)
- Sherif Mansour
Contributors
Supporters
We have been helped by many organizations, either financially or by encouraging their employees to work on ZAP. Thank you to all of these organizations for their support.