Awesome Web Security - ZH 

🐶 Curated list of Web Security materials and resources.
Needless to say, most websites suffer from various types of bugs which may eventually lead to vulnerabilities. Why would this happen so often? There can be many factors involved including misconfiguration, shortage of engineers' security skills, etc. To combat this, here is a curated list of Web Security materials and resources for learning cutting edge penetration techniques, and I highly encourage you to read this article "So you want to be a web security researcher?" first.
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Contents
Digests
Forums
Introduction
XSS - Cross-Site Scripting
Prototype Pollution
CSV Injection
SQL Injection
Command Injection
ORM Injection
FTP Injection
XXE - XML eXternal Entity
CSRF - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Clickjacking
SSRF - Server-Side Request Forgery
Web Cache Poisoning
Relative Path Overwrite
Open Redirect
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
Upload
Rails
AngularJS
ReactJS
SSL/TLS
Webmail
NFS
AWS
Azure
Fingerprint
Sub Domain Enumeration
Crypto
Web Shell
OSINT
DNS Rebinding
Deserialization
OAuth
JWT
Evasions
XXE
CSP
WAF
JSMVC
Authentication
Tricks
CSRF
Clickjacking
Remote Code Execution
XSS
SQL Injection
NoSQL Injection
FTP Injection
XXE
SSRF
Web Cache Poisoning
URL
Deserialization
OAuth
Others
Browser Exploitation
Frontend (like SOP bypass, URL spoofing, and something like that)
Backend (core of Browser implementation, and often refers to C or C++ part)
PoCs
Database
Cheetsheets
Auditing
Command Injection
Reconnaissance
OSINT - Open-Source Intelligence
- Censys - Censys is a search engine that allows computer scientists to ask questions about the devices and networks that compose the Internet by University of Michigan.
- FOCA - FOCA (Fingerprinting Organizations with Collected Archives) is a tool used mainly to find metadata and hidden information in the documents its scans by ElevenPaths.
- FOFA - 网络空间资产搜索引擎 by 白帽汇.
- gitrob - Reconnaissance tool for GitHub organizations by @michenriksen.
- GSIL - Github Sensitive Information Leakage(Github敏感信息泄露)by @FeeiCN.
- NSFOCUS - THREAT INTELLIGENCE PORTAL by NSFOCUS GLOBAL.
- raven - raven is a Linkedin information gathering tool that can be used by pentesters to gather information about an organization employees using Linkedin by @0x09AL.
- Shodan - Shodan is the world's first search engine for Internet-connected devices by @shodanhq.
- SpiderFoot - Open source footprinting and intelligence-gathering tool by @binarypool.
- urlscan.io - Service which analyses websites and the resources they request by @heipei.
- xray - XRay is a tool for recon, mapping and OSINT gathering from public networks by @evilsocket.
- ZoomEye - Cyberspace Search Engine by .
Sub Domain Enumeration
Code Generating
Fuzzing
- charsetinspect - Script that inspects multi-byte character sets looking for characters with specific user-defined properties by @hack-all-the-things.
- IPObfuscator - Simple tool to convert the IP to a DWORD IP by @OsandaMalith.
- wfuzz - Web application bruteforcer by @xmendez.
- domato - DOM fuzzer by @google.
- FuzzDB - Dictionary of attack patterns and primitives for black-box application fault injection and resource discovery.
- dirhunt - Web crawler optimized for searching and analyzing the directory structure of a site by @nekmo.
- ssltest - Online service that performs a deep analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server on the public internet. Provided by Qualys SSL Labs.
- fuzz.txt - Potentially dangerous files by @Bo0oM.
- wayparam - Cross-platform Python CLI that fetches historical URLs from the Wayback CDX API and outputs normalized parameterized URLs for fuzzing, by @aleff-github.
Scanning
- JoomlaScan - Free software to find the components installed in Joomla CMS, built out of the ashes of Joomscan by @drego85.
- wpscan - WPScan is a black box WordPress vulnerability scanner by @wpscanteam.
- WAScan - Is an open source web application security scanner that uses "black-box" method, created by @m4ll0k.
- Nuclei - Nuclei is a fast tool for configurable targeted scanning based on templates offering massive extensibility and ease of use by @projectdiscovery.
- Vigolium - High-fidelity vulnerability scanner fusing agentic AI with native speed, modularity, and precision, maintained by @j3ssie.
- ZAP by Checkmarx - Open-source web application security scanner maintained by the ZAP Core Team.
- Fray - Open-source WAF bypass and security-testing toolkit with 6,300+ payloads across OWASP categories, AI-assisted evasion engine, 27-check reconnaissance pipeline, and OWASP hardening audit, by @dalisecurity.
- Trust Scan - URL security scanner combining threat intelligence (URLhaus, PhishTank, Spamhaus) with 40+ scam and phishing pattern detection by @undeadlist.
- ZeroTrust - Privacy-first Chrome extension that analyzes website security locally with on-device AI (WebGPU), producing trust scores from HTTPS, phishing, malicious-script, and cookie-compliance signals, by @sattyamjjain.
- SecuriTool - Free online collection of 29 client-side web security tools: web auditor, JWT attacker/decoder, CVE search, CSP evaluator, email security checker (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), subdomain scanner, and more. 100% client-side, privacy-first, open source by .
Penetration Testing
Offensive
XSS - Cross-Site Scripting
SQL Injection
- sqlmap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool.
Template Injection
- tplmap - Code and Server-Side Template Injection Detection and Exploitation Tool by @epinna.
XXE
Cross Site Request Forgery
Server-Side Request Forgery
Leaking
Detecting
Preventing
- js-xss - Sanitize untrusted HTML (to prevent XSS) with a configuration specified by a Whitelist by @leizongmin.
- Acra - Client-side encryption engine for SQL databases, with strong selective encryption, SQL injections prevention and intrusion detection by @cossacklabs.
- DOMPurify - DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG by Cure53.
- Csper - A set of tools for building/evaluating/monitoring content-security-policy to prevent/detect cross site scripting by Csper.
- UUSEC WAF - An open-source web application firewall and API security gateway maintained by UUCORP.
- BunkerWeb - A next-generation open-source Web Application Firewall built on nginx, maintained by Bunkerity.
- FCaptcha - Self-hosted CAPTCHA with behavioral analysis, vision-AI agent detection, headless-browser fingerprinting, and SHA-256 proof-of-work, maintained by WebDecoy.
- Pompelmi - In-process file-upload security middleware for Node.js that scans untrusted uploads before storage to detect malware, MIME spoofing, and risky archives, maintained by pompelmi.
- WebDecoy - Zero-configuration WordPress bot-detection plugin combining WebDriver detection, headless-browser fingerprinting, behavioral analysis, and SHA-256 proof-of-work, maintained by WebDecoy.
- CrowdSec - Open-source collaborative IPS written in Go that analyzes visitor behavior and shares threat signals across a community of operators, maintained by .
Proxy
- Charles - HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet.
- mitmproxy - Interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers by @mitmproxy.
Webshell
Disassembler
Decompiler
DNS Rebinding
Others
Social Engineering Database
Blogs
- @cure53berlin - Cure53 is a German cybersecurity firm.
- @filedescriptor - Active penetrator often tweets and writes useful articles.
- @garethheyes - English web penetrator.
- @h3xstream - Security Researcher, interested in web security, crypto, pentest, static analysis but most of all, samy is my hero.
- @HackwithGitHub - Initiative to showcase open source hacking tools for hackers and pentesters.
- @hasegawayosuke - Japanese javascript security researcher.
- @kinugawamasato - Japanese web penetrator.
- @XssPayloads - The wonderland of JavaScript unexpected usages, and more.
- @shhnjk - Web and Browsers Security Researcher.
Practices
Application
AWS
XSS
ModSecurity / OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set
Miscellaneous
Code of Conduct
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License

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