# wapiti-scanner/wapiti

Web vulnerability scanner written in Python3

Repository: https://github.com/wapiti-scanner/wapiti
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wapiti
Homepage: https://wapiti-scanner.github.io/
Language: Python
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-08-19T08:28:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 98, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2279, "days_push": 14, "days_rel": 14, "gap_med": 20.0, "n_releases_24m": 13}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1846, forks 268 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:43.427203+00:00)

## What it is
Wapiti is an open-source black-box web vulnerability scanner written in Python that crawls deployed web applications and fuzzes scripts and forms with payloads to detect vulnerabilities. It covers a wide range of attacks (SQLi, XSS, command injection, SSRF, XXE, CSRF, etc.) and generates reports in multiple formats.

## Use cases
- scan my website for vulnerabilities
- find SQL injection and XSS in a web app
- audit security of a deployed web application
- detect Log4Shell and Spring4Shell on my servers
- fuzz web forms for injection flaws
- generate a security report for a web app
- enumerate CMS versions and related CVEs

## When to choose
- you need a free, scriptable black-box scanner for web apps
- you want CLI-based scanning with resumable sessions and multiple report formats
- you need broad payload coverage (SQLi, XSS, SSRF, XXE, CRLF, etc.) without source code access

## When to avoid
- you need static/source-code security analysis (SAST)
- you require an authenticated enterprise DAST with GUI dashboards and compliance reporting
- you want continuous runtime protection rather than periodic scanning

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: penetration-testing, vulnerability-scanning, web-scraping, security
- domain: security, penetration-testing, web-development
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: black-box-scanner, fuzzer, web-security-audit, xss, sql-injection, owasp, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- wapiti-scanner/wapiti (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:43.427203+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:17:53.507790+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wapiti-scanner/wapiti (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:43.427203+00:00, sha ef6ae200c7a5)
  - homepage: https://wapiti-scanner.github.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:57:01.218466+00:00, sha b1d34ccf53f5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.