wafw00f(8)

wafw00f8

Identify and fingerprint web application firewall products

Usage

wafw00f url1 [url2 [url3 ...]]

Overview

The Web Application Firewall Identification and Fingerprinting Tool.
To do its magic, WAFW00F does the following:

Sends a normal HTTP request and analyses the response; this identifies a number of WAF solutions. If that is not successful, it sends a number of (potentially malicious) HTTP requests and uses simple logic to deduce which WAF it is. If that is also not successful, it analyses the responses previously returned and uses another simple algorithm to guess if a WAF or security solution is active>

Options

-h, --help

Show available options.

-v, --verbose

Enable verbosity - multiple -v options increase verbosity.

-a, --findall

Find all WAFs, do not stop testing on the first one.

-r, --noredirect

Do not follow redirections given by 3xx responses.

-t WAF, --test=WAF

Test for one specific WAF product.

-o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT

Write output to csv, json or text file depending on file extension. For stdout, specify - as filename.

-f, --format=FORMAT

Force output format to csv, json or text.

-i INPUT, --input=INPUT

Read targets from a file. Input format can be csv, json or text. For csv and json, a `url` column name or element is required.

-l, --list

List all the WAFs that WAFW00F is able to detect.

-p PROXY, --proxy=PROXY

Use an HTTP proxy to perform requests, example: http://hostname:8080, socks5://hostname:1080.

-V, --version

Print out the version.

-H FILE, --headers=FILE

Pass custom headers, for example to overwrite the default user-agent string.

-T TIMEOUT, --timeout=TIMEOUT

Set the timeout for the requests.

--no-colors

Disable ANSI colors in output.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13

--format since Debian 13 (Trixie); --headers since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --input since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --no-colors since Debian 13 (Trixie); --noredirect since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --output since Debian 11 (Bullseye); --timeout since Debian 13 (Trixie); -T since Debian 13 (Trixie); -f since Debian 13 (Trixie); -i since Debian 11 (Bullseye); -o since Debian 11 (Bullseye).

--disableredirect until Debian 10 (Buster); --headersfile until Debian 10 (Buster).

Authors

Sandro Gauci (@SandroGauci)
Pinaki Mondal (@0xInfection)

Reporting bugs

You can report bugs at the project homepage issue tracker: <https://github.com/EnableSecurity/wafw00f/issues/>.

From wafw00f 2.3.1-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.