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WebScarab
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WebScarab is a web security application testing tool. It serves as a proxy that intercepts and allows people to alter web browser web requests (both HTTP and HTTPS) and web server replies. WebScarab also may record traffic for further review.[1]
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In 2013 official development of WebScarab slowed. The project repository was archived on 4 April 2024.[2] The website of the project was also archived and recommends using OWASP's Zed Attack Proxy instead.[3]
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Overview
WebScarab is an open source tool developed by The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), and was implemented in Java so it could run across multiple operating systems.[4]
WebScarab is meant to act as a framework, being extensible and with most features being implemented as plugins.[3]
Features
Some of the features provided by plugins include: [3]
- An intercepting proxy server
- Executing Java commands with BeanShell
- Emulating a slower network
- Acting as a web crawler
- Fuzzing request parameters
- Cross-site scripting analysis
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