w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project's goal is to create a framework to help you secure your web applications by finding and exploiting all web application vulnerabilities. Our framework is proudly developed using Python to be easy to use and extend, and licensed under GPLv2.0.
As of January 2026, the mindshare of w3af in the Application Security Tools category
stands at 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Security Tools Market Share Distribution
