The OWASP Hackademic Challenges are an open source project that can be used to test and improve one's knowledge of web application security.
The OWASP Hackademic Challenges project implements realistic scenarios with known vulnerabilities in a safe, controllable environment. Users can attempt to discover and exploit these vulnerabilities in order to learn important concepts of information security through the attacker's perspective.
A tool for the purpose of performing web application security assessment around the availability concerns. Web Denial of Service Attack tool.
Mantra is a collection of free and open source tools integrated into a web browser, which can become handy for students, penetration testers, web application developers,security professionals etc. It is portable, ready-to-run, compact and follows the true spirit of free and open source software.
JBroFuzz is a web application fuzzer for requests being made over HTTP or HTTPS. Its purpose is to provide a single, portable application that offers stable web protocol fuzzing capabilities
This is the project for the owasp live cd which is a web pentesting distro that contains many of the owasp tools and a few tutorils.
ProxMon is an extensible Python based framework that reduces testing effort, improves consistency and reduces errors. Its use requires limited additional effort as it processes the proxy logs that you’re already generating and reports discovered issues. In addition to penetration testing, ProxMon is useful in QA, developer testing and regression testing scenarios.
WebSlayer is a tool designed for brute forcing Web Applications, it can be used to discover not linked resources (directories, servlets, scripts, etc), brute force GET and POST parameters, brute force Forms parameters (User/Password), Fuzzing, etc. The tools has a payload generator and a easy and powerful results analyzer to aid the tester in all the brute force tests.
Arachni is an open source web application security scanner framework coded in ruby that helps website administrators and penetration testers evaluate the security of a web application.
Mopest is a PERL Local PHP Vulnerability Scanner for exploits PhpBB 2.0.20 Disable Administrator, PhpBB 2.0.19 Denial of Service - Infinitely topic, phpBB 2.0.15 Database Authentication Details, Invision Power Board 2.0.2 Multipl Users DoS, Invision Power Board 2.1.5 Code Execution, MyBB 1.0 RC4 Sql injection, MyBB 1.1.3 Create An Admin, MyBB Sql Injection, and WordPress 1.5.11 Sql Injection. It also has tools like Fake Mailer, Email Bomber, and MD5 Cracker.
Webshag is a multi-threaded, multi-platform web server auditing tool coded in python. It is used for crawling a URL, port scanning, file fuzzing and audits your website.