# Ekultek/WhatWaf

Detect and bypass web application firewalls and protection systems

Repository: https://github.com/Ekultek/WhatWaf
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/whatwaf
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: bypass, firewall, web-application, detection, waf, fingerprinting, web-application-firewall-bypassing, web-application-firewall
Last push: 2024-08-11T00:19:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3183, "days_push": 753, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2924, forks 468 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:30.366035+00:00)

## What it is
WhatWaf is a Python command-line tool that detects web application firewalls (WAFs) protecting a target web application and attempts to find bypasses for them. It fingerprints dozens of known WAF products such as Cloudflare, Akamai, F5, and Barracuda.

## Use cases
- detect which WAF is protecting a website
- find bypasses for a web application firewall
- fingerprint firewall protection on a target URL
- test whether my site's WAF can be evaded
- identify WAF vendor from HTTP responses
- penetration testing of web application protections

## When to choose
- you need to identify or fingerprint a WAF on a target web application
- you are doing authorized penetration testing and want to test WAF evasion
- you want a scriptable CLI for firewall detection across many known WAF products

## When to avoid
- you need a actively maintained tool with fast updates - the maintainer states updates are slow
- you need a GUI or automated continuous WAF monitoring
- you lack authorization to test the target - this is an offensive security tool

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, penetration-testing, http-client, cli
- domain: security, penetration-testing, web-development
- platform: windows, python, cli
- tags: waf-detection, waf-bypass, fingerprinting, web-application-firewall, offensive-security, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- Ekultek/WhatWaf (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:30.366035+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 2026-08-29T18:47:39.502900+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Ekultek/WhatWaf (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:30.366035+00:00, sha 4b00eadaf656)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.