No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
wafw00f has 163K monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 2.4.2 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2014.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.
It is built on top of requests. It is used by 2 tracked packages, including hexhttp and originx.
GitHub topics include waf, fingerprint and waffit.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
83
Adoption
82
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
79 days ago
Monthly downloads
163,279
Active
Activity within 30 days
•
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
163,279
Stars
6,446
Stars per 1k downloads
39.48
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
•
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
6,014
Month daily avg
5,443
Momentum
+10.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD-3-Clause
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
161 days ago
Total releases
16
Releases/year
1.4
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
54
Monthly downloads
163,279
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
46
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
5.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
82d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
4.7K
Windows
64
macOS
41
Python Versions
3.13
60.8%
2.9K
3.14
21.5%
1.0K
3.12
11.1%
531
3.11
6.0%
285
3.10
0.6%
31
Top Countries
1.
US
4.0K
US
2.
AU
182
AU
3.
DE
67
DE
4.
IN
60
IN
5.
FR
56
FR
6.
GB
52
GB
7.
BR
40
BR
8.
NL
32
NL
9.
IE
28
IE
10.
CN
25
CN
Dependencies
1
5 optional dependencies
- prospector[dev]
- pytest[dev]
- pytest-mock[dev]
- responses[dev]
- sphinx[docs]
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
October 29, 2014
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
2.4.2
Total Releases
16
Contributors
54
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh