SecuDAST vs Wapiti

SecuDAST is a self-hosted dynamic application security testing engine for running applications inside a customer’s network. It scans authenticated flows, APIs, single-page applications, and traditional form-based sites, including internal, staging, and pre-production targets reachable from that network. The engine runs beside applications without cloud scanning infrastructure or sending traffic outside the network. Scans start in safe mode, avoiding destructive payloads and rate-limiting probes; teams can enable more aggressive checks and exclude paths. Every finding includes the request and response that demonstrated it, and results flow to the SecuNexa dashboard with evidence and standard reports for pipelines and ticketing. Scoped, repeatable profiles support CI stages and nightly schedules, with named integrations for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and self-hosted runners. The dashboard offers seven project-scoped roles, immutable audit logging, local accounts, MFA, and optional LDAP or SSO. SecuNexa says engines run offline, do not phone home, and receive vulnerability data through signed offline bundles. Pricing is on request.

Wapiti is a free, open-source command-line scanner for auditing websites and web applications with black-box crawling and injected tests. Its modules check SQL and LDAP injection, cross-site scripting, file disclosure, command execution, XXE, SSRF, open redirects, file uploads, and TLS configuration. It can scan REST APIs from OpenAPI files and inspect security headers, cookie flags, CSP settings, and related controls. Authentication options include Basic, Digest, NTLM, login forms, browser-cookie import, and custom Python scripts. Wapiti supports HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 proxies, browser exploration through a man-in-the-middle proxy, and headless Firefox crawling. Reports can be exported as HTML, XML, JSON, TXT, CSV, or Markdown. Users can limit scope, exclude URLs, adjust crawler behavior, set time limits, and control concurrent tasks. Installation uses pip and requires Python 3.12, 3.13, or 3.14. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows through WSL, with self-hosted deployment.