Top 5 web application security testing tools in 2021.

Web application are public faces for any organization and securing public doors is one of the top priority in cyber security. Here we would look at top 5 cyber security audit tools for web application in 2021.

1. Burp Suite

Burp Suite is a java based integrated Web Application Penetration Testing framework developed by Portswigger. It is commonly used by cyber security professionals to analyze web applications. It helps to identify vulnerabilities and possible attack vectors. It’s mostly opted for its simplicity against similar open source frameworks such as OWASP ZAP Proxy.

Some other integrated tools in Burp Suite are Proxy, Intruder, Spider, Repeater, Sequencer, Decoder, Extender and Automated Vulnerability Scanner.

Although the community version comes free of charge, its “Professional Edition” is billed “$399/year” and the “Enterprise Edition” “$3999/year”.

Official Website : Burp Suite — Application Security Testing Software — PortSwigger

Download : Download your community edition here.

2. SQLMap

Sqlmap is one of the top penetration testing tool for discovery and exploiting SQL Injection vulnerabilities in web applications. It comes with a powerful detection engine wide range of switches covering fingerprinting, accessing and exploiting.

The tool supports most of the database along with all six SQL exploiting techniques such as boolean-based blind, time-based blind, error-based, UNION query-based, stacked queries and out-of-band. In addition, it also supports automation for password hash identification and database dump along support for cracking hashed passwords. It also has support for privilege escalation via Metasploit’s Meterpreter “getsystem” command.

Official Website : https://sqlmap.org/

Download from Github : GitHub — sqlmapproject/sqlmap: Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool

3. w3af

W3af is a web application audit frameworks which works in three phases namely “Discovery”, “Audit” and “Attack”. The framework is designed such that the plugins interact within to ensure through audit is performed. The frameworks covers most of the common vulnerabilities including SQL injection, Buffer Overflow, Cross-site-scripting (XSS), CSRF, etc.

The framework is open source. Download w3af here.

4. Hashcat

With Web Application Security testing, you would encounter hashed passwords which needs to be cracked. Hashcat saves the day being one of the fastest and most advanced password recovery tool. It supports five unique modes of attack for over 200 hashing algorithms.

Official Website : hashcat — advanced password recovery

Download from Github : GitHub — hashcat/hashcat: World’s fastest and most advanced password recovery utility

5. Wfuzz

Wfuzz is a very popular tool designed for bruteforcing Web applications. It can be used to find resources such as files, directories, scripts supporting GET and POST requests. The open source tool has no GUI, but can be efficiently used via command line. Common vulnerabilities that could be identified via this tool are Cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL Injection and LDAP injection.

Official Website : Edge-security group — Wfuzz

Download from Github : GitHub — xmendez/wfuzz: Web application fuzzer