# samdenty/Wi-PWN

ESP8266 firmware for performing deauthentication attacks, with ease.

Repository: https://github.com/samdenty/Wi-PWN
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wi-pwn
Language: C
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: wifi, arduino, attack, esp8266, deauth, hack, probe, beacon, board, material-design, material-ui, material-theme
Last push: 2024-01-26T10:06:02+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": 3392, "days_push": 950, "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 1739, forks 329 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:30.040780+00:00)

## What it is
Wi-PWN is ESP8266 firmware for performing WiFi deauthentication attacks with a fast, responsive Material Design web UI. It includes an integrated deauth detector, WiFi client mode, packet statistics, and a translation engine.

## Use cases
- perform wifi deauthentication attacks from an esp8266
- detect deauth attacks on my network
- flash a wifi pentesting tool onto an esp8266 board
- run beacon and probe attacks with a web interface
- test wifi network resilience to deauth flooding

## When to choose
- you have an ESP8266 board and want an easy-to-use deauth attack tool with a polished web UI
- you want a built-in deauth detector for monitoring
- you need multi-language support

## When to avoid
- you need a legal-compliance-free tool for production networks - deauth attacks are illegal without authorization
- you use modern ESP32 hardware rather than ESP8266
- you need actively developed features - the project is in maintenance mode

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, embedded, gui
- domain: security, penetration-testing, hardware, embedded-systems
- platform: embedded, iot
- tags: esp8266, wifi, deauth-attack, firmware, penetration-testing, material-design, arduino, web-server

## Member repositories
- samdenty/Wi-PWN (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.040780+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 2026-08-30T03:30:14.479107+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/samdenty/Wi-PWN (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:30.040780+00:00, sha a416054083c0)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.