Security & Quality

OWASP ZAP Security Testing

Perform automated web application security testing to find common vulnerabilities like XSS, injection flaws, and misconfigurations.

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Overview

OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) is the world's most widely used web application security testing tool. It performs automated scans to detect vulnerabilities like cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, CSRF, and security misconfigurations. It can also be used for manual penetration testing and security auditing.

AI agents can orchestrate ZAP scans against your development or staging environments, interpret the vulnerability reports, and implement fixes directly in your codebase. When ZAP identifies an XSS vulnerability, the agent can trace the issue to the specific code path and add proper input sanitization or output encoding.

The integration is especially valuable during pre-release security reviews. Your AI agent can spin up your application, run a full ZAP scan, prioritize the findings by severity, and work through the critical and high-severity issues, implementing fixes and re-scanning to verify they are resolved.

Who Is This For?

Security engineers running automated penetration tests on web applications
Developers fixing XSS, injection, and CSRF vulnerabilities with AI guidance
Teams integrating security scanning into pre-release verification workflows
QA engineers verifying security fixes through automated re-scanning

Installation

Setup for Claude Code

docker pull ghcr.io/zaproxy/zaproxy:stable
Claude Code runs ZAP via Docker:
docker run -t ghcr.io/zaproxy/zaproxy:stable zap-baseline.py -t http://localhost:3000

Configuration

# ZAP automation framework config
# zap-config.yaml
env:
  contexts:
    - name: "My App"
      urls: ["http://localhost:3000"]
  parameters:
    failOnError: true
jobs:
  - type: spider
    parameters:
      maxDuration: 5
  - type: activeScan
    parameters:
      maxScanDurationInMins: 10