How Organizations Can Win at Website Security
An insecure website is a serious security risk for organizations of all sizes. Insecure websites are highly vulnerable to cyberattacks, malware, and other cyberthreats, and
WAF or Web application firewall is a
security tool that protects a website from various type of attacks
which included but not limited to: SQL-injection, XSS, Local file
inclusion and others. Web based IPS (intrusion prevention system) has
also been designed to protect a web server but these is a difference
between WAF and IPS; web application firewall provides protection
from web-based attack while IPS protect a web server from network
based attack.
The responsibility of a penetration tester is to protect the web server from both directional attacks, so
IPS and WAF are both have their own importance for a pen tester. In
order to conduct a successful vulnerability assessment on a website,
you need to find the security tools that are protecting it.
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WAFW00F – Web Application Firewall Detection Tool
By Sandro Gauci && Wendel G. Henrique
Usage: wafw00f url1 [url2 [url3 … ]]
example: wafw00f http://www.victim.org/
Options:
-h, –help show this help message and exit
-v, –verbose enable verbosity – multiple -v options increase
verbosity
-a, –findall Find all WAFs, do not stop testing on the first one
-r, –disableredirect
Do not follow redirections given by 3xx responses
-t TEST, –test=TEST Test for one specific WAF
-l, –list List all WAFs that we are able to detect
–xmlrpc Switch on the XML-RPC interface instead of CUI
–xmlrpcport=XMLRPCPORT
Specify an alternative port to listen on, default 8001
-V, –version Print out the version
Everything has its limitation, wafw00f has also some limitation. It can only detect the firewalls which are listed in the script database, so it is recommended that you should update your tool. In the following example you can see that the firewall name was not fetched by wafw00f.
Industrial Cybersecurity
September 28, 2023
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