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ZAP Updates 2023 January

Posted Thursday February 2, 2023 616 Words
The January 2023 updates including authentication improvements and future plans.

Authenticating Using Selenium

Posted Wednesday February 1, 2023 1415 Words
How to configure ZAP to handle complex authentication using Selenium.

Authentication Help

Posted Thursday January 19, 2023 1004 Words
Handling authentication in automation is hard, but help is on its way.

2022 in Review

Posted Tuesday January 3, 2023 565 Words
A summary of everything ZAP related that happened in 2022.

ZAP Updates 2022 November

Posted Thursday December 1, 2022 900 Words
The November 2022 updates, following the 2.12.0 release.

ZAP Updates 2022 September

Posted Friday September 30, 2022 1716 Words
The September 2022 updates, including our new Platinum Supporter - Jit, GSoC 2022 success, more news on the forthcoming 2.12.0 release, and no less than 31 add-on updates!

Hacking ZAP - ZAP Extender Scripts

Posted Tuesday September 13, 2022 658 Words
An overview of ZAP Extender scripts with examples. Use ZAP as a web server, subscribe to internal ZAP events, and more!

ZAP Updates 2022 August

Posted Wednesday August 31, 2022 1027 Words
All of the things that have been happening related to ZAP in August 2022.

The Requester Add-on

Posted Tuesday May 10, 2022 196 Words
An add-on aimed squarely at the pentesters.

The StackHawk ZAP Fund

Posted Tuesday March 22, 2022 444 Words
StackHawk has launched a $100,000 ZAP Fund dedicated to improving ZAP and the ZAP Community.

ZAPCon 2022 Schedule is Now Live

Posted Wednesday February 16, 2022 236 Words
I am excited to share that we’ve just released the speaker lineup and schedule for the ZAPCon 2022! ZAPCon takes place on March 8-9, with one day of talks and one day of incredible workshops.

New ZAP Networking Layer

Posted Thursday February 10, 2022 427 Words
The ZAP Weekly and Live releases have an all new networking layer.

Log4Shell Detection with ZAP

Posted Tuesday December 14, 2021 1081 Words
A walkthrough of using the new Log4Shell Alpha Active Scan rule with the ZAP Automation Framework.

ZAP and Log4Shell

Posted Friday December 10, 2021 300 Words
ZAP appears to be impacted by the Log4Shell vulnerability - CVE-2021-44228. We have released ZAP 2.11.1 which fixes the problem, this blog post gives more information and the impact on older versions of ZAP.

The Eval Villain Add-on

Posted Wednesday December 1, 2021 1560 Words
Eval Villain was recently added to the ZAP Marketplace. This add-on installs the Eval Villain web extension in Firefox and allows the inspection of arguments to arbitrary native JavaScript functions.

OWASP Outstanding Project 2021

Posted Wednesday November 24, 2021 86 Words
ZAP has been awarded the 2021 Waspy Award for Outstanding Project, as selected by OWASP Members.

ZAP Telemetry Plans

Posted Monday October 25, 2021 591 Words
We are planning to add telemetry to ZAP - data that will tell us more about how ZAP is being used. This blog post explains why we are planning on doing this, what data we plan to collect, what data we will definitely not collect, the benefits you can expect, and how you will be able to opt out of it.

ZAP 2.11.0

Posted Thursday October 7, 2021 490 Words
ZAP 2.11.0 (also known as the OWASP 20th anniversary release) is available now. Major changes include: Alert Tags Alerts can now be tagged with arbitrary keys or key=value pairs - this can be done via the desktop GUI and the API. All of the active and passive scan rules have been updated to include tags for the OWASP Top 10 2021 and 2017.

Retesting alerts with OWASP ZAP

Posted Monday August 23, 2021 788 Words
An overview of the features of the Retest add-on for OWASP ZAP. This add-on allows you to retest for previously generated alerts.

ZAP FileUpload Add-on

Posted Friday August 20, 2021 610 Words
Overview File upload is becoming a more and more essential part of any application, where the user is able to upload their photo, their CV, or a video showcasing a project they are working on. The application should be able to fend off bogus and malicious files in a way to keep the application and the users safe.

Collecting Statistics for Open Source Projects

Posted Monday April 19, 2021 1841 Words
This blog post will show you how you can collect and publish statistics on your open source projects using free resources and open source scripts, based on the setup we have for ZAP.

ZAP 2.10 Features

Posted Monday March 29, 2021 939 Words
Do you know what interesting bits were added to ZAP 2.10.0? Don’t read release notes? This blog post is for you! Dark mode, Expand/Collapse top panes, Custom pages, Scriptable encode/decode/hash, Authentication polling, Auth header via ENV vars, Site tree control, and more.

ZAP Report Competition

Posted Friday March 12, 2021 1068 Words
Help us add modern, useful and stylish reports to ZAP - the competition is now open until October 1st 2021.

1st Ever ZAPCon - Call For Papers

Posted Thursday January 28, 2021 185 Words
Today we are calling for topics and speakers in the first-ever OWASP ZAP User Conference!

Sites Tree Modifiers

Posted Tuesday September 22, 2020 1169 Words
The Sites Tree is a key component of ZAP, and one whose purpose is often misunderstood. This blog post will explain why the Sites Tree is so important, how you can change it now and how you will be able to change it in the next ZAP release.

ZAP Tags

Posted Monday September 14, 2020 282 Words
How to give some colours to ZAP’s History tab. An introduction to passive scanning tags, its use cases, and the Neonmarker add-on.

ZAP is Ten Years Old

Posted Sunday September 6, 2020 490 Words
On September 6th 2010 I posted this message to Bugtraq: Title - The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) version 1.0.0. From those very humble beginnings ZAP has now become what we believe is the world’s most frequently used web application scanner.

ZAP JWT Support Add-on

Posted Thursday September 3, 2020 423 Words
With the popularity of JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) there comes the need to secure their use so that they are not misused because of bad configuration, older libraries, or buggy implementations. So the JWT Support add-on is used to find such vulnerabilities and this blog explains on how to use it.

Introducing the GraphQL Add-on for ZAP

Posted Friday August 28, 2020 889 Words
GraphQL Schemas can be very large and testing them can be a very time-consuming process. Currently, there is a lack of tools that allow developers to launch and automate attacks on these endpoints. The GraphQL add-on for ZAP intends to fill this gap. The add-on is still in an early stage, so the range of its functionality is limited.

ZAP 2.9 Highlights

Posted Thursday June 4, 2020 953 Words
Do you know what interesting bits were added to ZAP 2.9.0? Don’t read release notes? This blog post is for you! Session Management Scripts, Proxy Info Display, Proxy Port Reservation Failure Handling, Options Panel(s) Filter, Active Scan Filter, and more.

Dynamic Application Security Testing with ZAP and GitHub Actions

Posted Friday May 15, 2020 598 Words
ZAP full scan GitHub action provides free dynamic application security testing (DAST) of your web applications. DAST is also known as black-box testing, which allows ZAP to identify potential vulnerabilities in your web applications. We previously introduced the ZAP baseline scan GitHub action to passively identify potential alerts in a web application.

Customize Alert Details

Posted Monday May 11, 2020 381 Words
Did you know that you or your company/organization could customize the generic details of the alerts that ZAP raises? Alerts raised by ZAP contain a variety of information, some generic, some specific to the issue at hand. Specific details may include things such as URL, parameter, values, etc. While generic details include things like a description, solution, and links to related background material and resources.

Automate Security Testing with ZAP and GitHub Actions

Posted Thursday April 9, 2020 741 Words
With the increasing number of web application security breaches, it is essential to keep your web application secure at all times. Furthermore having security integrated into your CI/CD pipeline (DevSecOps) will become a lifesaver if you are actively developing the application. To cater to this need ZAP provides a baseline scan feature to find common security faults in a web application without doing any active attacks.

Is ZAP the World’s most Popular Web Scanner?

Posted Thursday April 2, 2020 394 Words
I’ve stated that ZAP is the world’s most popular free and open source web application scanner on stage at security conferences around the world for many years. No one has ever contradicted me so it must be true :) However I’ve started to wonder if ZAP is actually more popular than most if not all of the commercial scanners as well?

ZAP SSRF Setup

Posted Monday March 9, 2020 604 Words
Some vulnerabilities can only be found by sending payloads that cause a callback to the tester. One example is XXE vulnerabilities when the XML rendering result is not available to the user. ZAP can find these vulnerabilities that depend on SSRF detection but the target system needs to be able to reach the ZAP callback endpoint.

Dark Mode in the Weekly Release

Posted Wednesday March 4, 2020 110 Words
We release ZAP every week: https://www.zaproxy.org/download/#weekly We’re happy to announce that this week’s release includes the first steps towards an all new dark mode for the ZAP Desktop UI: It’s early days - not all screens use suitable colours, but it should be mostly usable. To enable it in the weekly release:

The ZAP Blog has Moved

Posted Monday March 2, 2020 173 Words
OK, OK, it’s been a long time since the last ZAP blog post. But we certainly have not been idle - since that last blog post we’ve published 3 full ZAP releases, well over 100 weekly releases and a shiny new web site: https://zaproxy.org/ Because we now have a new website we’ve decided to move our blog from https://zaproxy.

ZAP 2.5.0

Posted Friday June 3, 2016 362 Words
ZAP 2.5.0 is now available. This release contains a large number of enhancements and fixes which are detailed in the release notes. API changes There have been some API changes which are not backwards compatible, and the reason for the version change to 2.5. These are detailed in the release notes.

Alberto's GSoC 2014 Project for ZAP SOAP Scanner Add-On

Posted Wednesday September 3, 2014 325 Words
Hello everybody, my name is Alberto Verza, a 23 year student from Spain, and this summer I have participated in Google Summer of Code 2014. My project was the SOAP Scanner add-on for ZAP, in which I worked during all the Program. Let me explain you the features it includes.

ZAP 2.0.0 and the Google Summer of Code 2012 Projects

Posted Monday December 10, 2012 793 Words
We are getting close to releasing the next major version of ZAP. As there are so many changes we’ve decided to go to version 2.0.0 rather than 1.5, and some of the biggest changes have come about thanks to the Google Summer of Code (GSoC). This is the first year in which ZAP has taken part in the GSoC, and it has been a resounding success.

ZAP Weekly Releases

Posted Monday October 22, 2012 485 Words
I’ve been struggling with the question of ZAP releases. We’ve made loads of enhancements to ZAP recently, and I want them to be available to as wide an audience as possible. But I also want to make sure our ‘full’ releases remain as robust and stable as possible.

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