Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers
Web application firewalls
Inspect HTTP traffic and block attacks, bots and abuse before they reach an application.
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| Tool | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
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| Anubis | 23k | MIT | Open source | Yes | Go | v1.27.0 | 2026-10-05 |
| SafeLine | 23k | GPL-3.0 | Open source | Yes | Go | v9.4.2 | 2026-09-28 |
| ModSecurity | 9.8k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | C++ | v3.0.17 | 2026-10-03 |
| Coraza | 3.9k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Go | v3.8.1 | 2026-10-06 |
| OWASP CRS | 3.3k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | Python | v4.30.0 | 2026-10-06 |
| open-appsec | 1.7k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | Yes | C++ | 1.1.36 | 2026-09-06 |
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SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. It has a robust event-based programming language which provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis.
- Language
- C++
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 9.8k
- Latest
- v3.0.17
- Last push
- 2026-10-03
OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library
- Language
- Go
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 3.9k
- Latest
- v3.8.1
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
OWASP CRS (Official Repository)
- Language
- Python
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 3.3k
- Latest
- v4.30.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
open-appsec is a machine learning security engine that preemptively and automatically prevents threats against Web Application & APIs. This repo include the main code and logic.
- Language
- C++
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 1.7k
- Latest
- 1.1.36
- Last push
- 2026-09-06