Burp Suite DAST vs Wapiti

Burp Suite DAST is an automated dynamic scanner for web vulnerabilities, built on the scanning engine used in Burp Suite Professional. Its Chromium-based crawler can handle JavaScript single-page applications, dynamic forms, GraphQL endpoints, and asynchronous loads, while crawling and auditing can run in parallel. Session-aware scans maintain authenticated state using username-password pairs or recorded login sequences. The scanner covers APIs described by Postman Collections, OpenAPI, SOAP, and GraphQL, with native support for several authentication methods. Teams can schedule portfolio scans from a dashboard or run them in CI pipelines, including on pull requests and merges. Deployment options include managed cloud and self-hosted software for Windows and Linux, plus Helm deployment for Kubernetes; self-hosted deployments can operate in air-gapped environments. Access controls include role-based permissions, site groups, audit trails, SAML single sign-on, and group-locked scan policies. Findings include captured requests and confirming responses. Pricing depends on the portfolio and requires contacting PortSwigger; a guided proof-of-concept trial follows a tailored demo and discovery call.

Wapiti is a Python scanner that audits deployed websites and web applications for vulnerabilities. It crawls the application and sends payloads to links, forms, and scripts rather than inspecting source code. Listed checks cover SQL and XPath injection, cross-site scripting, file disclosure, command execution, XXE, SSRF, and open redirects. It can scan REST APIs using an OpenAPI (Swagger) file and supports authenticated scans through Basic, Digest, or NTLM authentication, login forms, imported browser cookies, or custom Python code. Users can configure scope, crawler limits, HTTP headers, and HTTP, HTTPS, or SOCKS5 proxies. Scans can be suspended and resumed using SQLite-backed sessions. Reports are available in HTML, XML, JSON, TXT, CSV, and Markdown. Wapiti is free and released under GNU GPL version 2; installation is offered with pip. The project lists Python 3.12, 3.13, or 3.14 as requirements and says Windows use can be done through WSL. Its README warns scans may disrupt targets or cause data loss and says the target owner's consent is required.