What is Frontdoor?
Frontdoor is an open-source web application security scanner designed to help developers and security engineers identify security vulnerabilities in their web apps and APIs. It works by crawling the target application to discover all available content and functionality, then performing automated vulnerability scans to detect issues like:
- SQL injection
- Cross-site scripting (XSS)
- Insecure HTTP methods
- Remote code execution
- Insecure configurations
- Insufficient authorization
- And more...
Some key capabilities and benefits of Frontdoor include:
- Automated crawling and scanning to cover more of the attack surface
- Hundreds of vulnerability checks covering OWASP Top 10 and more
- Easy setup as a Docker container image
- Customizable scans through configuration file
- Detailed reporting of found vulnerabilities
- Integration with CI/CD pipelines
- Headless interface designed for automation
- Free and open-source for transparency and community contribution
Overall, Frontdoor brings an enterprise-grade dynamic application security testing (DAST) tool to the open-source community. It can help developers build more secure software and give security teams confidence in the apps they ship.