OWASP Zed Attack Proxy Project

= Main =



The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications.

It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testing.

ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually.

OWASP ZAP is also the Toolsmith Tool of the Year for 2011!


The current version of ZAP is 1.3.4.

Want a very quick introduction? See the project pamphlet.

For a slightly longer introduction see the project presentation.

For video introductions to ZAP see the links on the wiki videos page.

For more details about ZAP, including the full user guide, see the wiki.

Zed Attack Proxy

Some of ZAP's features:


 * Intercepting Proxy
 * Automated scanner
 * Passive scanner
 * Brute Force scanner
 * Spider
 * Fuzzer
 * Port scanner
 * Dynamic SSL certificates
 * API
 * Beanshell integration

Some of ZAP's characteristics:


 * Easy to install (just requires java 1.6)
 * Ease of use a priority
 * Comprehensive help pages
 * Fully internationalized
 * Under active development
 * Open source
 * Free (no paid for 'Pro' version)
 * Cross platform
 * Involvement actively encouraged

It supports the following languages:


 * English
 * Brazilian Portuguese
 * Chinese
 * Danish
 * French
 * German
 * Greek
 * Indonesian
 * Japanese
 * Persian
 * Polish
 * Spanish

ZAP is a fork of the well regarded Paros Proxy.

= Roadmap =

Details of previous releases can be found here

Release 1.3.4
Version 1.3.4 has just been released, which is the third bugfix release of the 1.3.x branch.

Compared to previous releases, the 1.3.x branch adds the following main features:
 * Fuzzing (using components from JBroFuzz)
 * Dynamic SSL Certificates
 * Daemon mode and API to allow other tools to interact with ZAP
 * BeanShell integration
 * Full internationalization
 * Out of the box support for 10 languages

Release 1.4
The next major release will focus on stability and scanning (spider, passive and active).

Candidate enhancements and fixes are flagged as high priority on the issues page.

Follow this thread on the developers newsgroup for more information, and please post any feedback you have.

Future Releases
Future releases are likely to include:
 * Fuzzing analysis
 * API extensions
 * Enhancements and fixes logged on the issues page

= Get Involved =

Involvement in the development of ZAP is actively encouraged!

You do not have to be a security expert in order to contribute.

Some of the ways you can help:

Feature Requests
Please raise new feature requests as enhancement requests here: http://code.google.com/p/zaproxy/issues/list

If there are existing requests you are also interested in then please 'star' them - that way we can see which features people are most interested in and can prioritize them accordingly.

Feedback
Please use the zaproxy-develop Google Group for feedback:
 * What do like?
 * What don't you like?
 * What features could be made easier to use?
 * How could the help pages be improved?

Log issues
Have you had a problem using ZAP?

If so and its not already been logged then please report it

Localization
Are you fluent in another language? Can you help translate ZAP into that language?

If so then please get in touch.

Development
If you fancy having a go at adding functionality to ZAP then please get in touch via the zaproxy-develop Google Group.

Again, you do not have to be a security expert to contribute code - working on ZAP could be great way to learn more about web application security!

If you actively contribute to ZAP then you will be invited to join the project.

= Project About =