Dradis vs w3af

Dradis supports security assessment work from kickoff through collaboration, reporting, remediation and workflow automation. It organizes assessment information with structured data, templates and automation to create consistent deliverables, and its review process lets teams examine work in a PR-style format before it reaches a report. Risk tools include CVSSv4, DREAD and MITRE ATT&CK calculators, with OWASP, PTES, OSCP, HIPAA, PCI and custom methodologies. Dradis lists more than 47 integrations across scanners, ticketing and SSO, including Nessus, Burp Suite, Nmap, Qualys, Jira and Okta. A REST API, webhooks and rules engine support integrations and automated workflows. Remediate adds tracking of fixes and integrations with Jira, Azure DevOps and ServiceNow. The software is self-hosted and can run without an internet connection; the maker says it cannot access customer data. Community Edition is free for one project at a time. Assess costs $3,600 a year and Remediate costs $7,200 a year, each with a three-seat minimum.

w3af is a free, open-source web application security scanner for vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. It can identify more than 200 vulnerabilities, including cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and OS command injection. Its workflow starts with crawler plugins that find URLs and injection points, continues with audit plugins that check for vulnerabilities, and can use attack plugins to exploit findings. Other plugin types cover infrastructure detection, request and response analysis, output, brute force, request modification, and evasion.

Users can scan and analyze results in a GTK graphical interface or a console. Web application payloads can interact with Metasploit when an exploit provides exec() capability. Developers can use the REST API from development languages and run it in Docker; scripts and the API also support automation. The project documents Linux and macOS installation, including running in Docker without installing w3af dependencies. It is available for Linux, macOS, web, API, and self-hosted deployment. REST API traffic over HTTP is unencrypted, so the documentation recommends added protection such as an SSL proxy for publicly reachable deployments.