website-security-scanner

website-security-scanner

Fast, lightweight website security scanner for Node.js (headers, TLS, ports, basic vulns) with optional OWASP ZAP integration.

Quick start

npm install -g website-security-scanner
website-security-scanner https://example.com --json

Programmatic:

const { runScan, loadConfig } = require('website-security-scanner');

(async () => {
  const config = loadConfig();
  const results = await runScan({ targetUrl: 'https://example.com', useZap: false, config });
  console.log(JSON.stringify(results, null, 2));
})();

Features

• Security headers and cookie flags (CSP, XFO, XCTO, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy; Secure/HttpOnly/SameSite)
• TLS certificate checks (validity, expiry, protocol); HTTP/2 via ALPN; HTTP/3 via Alt-Svc
• Open ports scan (common ports) with concurrency limits
• Basic reflected XSS and SQLi heuristics
• DOM heuristics (inline scripts, inline event handlers, mixed content)
• Configurable timeouts, concurrency, and severity threshold
• Optional OWASP ZAP daemon integration

CLI usage

website-security-scanner <url> [--json] [--zap] [--config path] [--min-sev Sev]

• --json: print JSON
• --zap: run OWASP ZAP (requires ZAP daemon)
• --config: path to a JSON config file
• --min-sev: Info | Low | Medium | High | Critical (filters display)

Exit codes:

• 0: success, no Critical findings
• 2: at least one Critical finding
• 1: runtime error

Examples:

website-security-scanner https://example.com
website-security-scanner https://example.com --json --min-sev Low
website-security-scanner http://example.com --config scanner.config.json

Configuration

Create scanner.config.json:

{
  "minSeverity": "Low",
  "timeouts": { "defaultMs": 8000, "tlsMs": 10000, "portProbeMs": 1500 },
  "concurrency": { "portProbes": 10 }
}

ZAP integration (optional)

Run ZAP daemon and set env vars:

zap.sh -daemon -config api.addrs.addr.name=127.0.0.1 -config api.addrs.addr.regex=false -config api.key=YOURKEY
export ZAP_HOST=127.0.0.1 ZAP_PORT=8090 ZAP_API_KEY=YOURKEY
website-security-scanner https://example.com --zap --json

How it works

• Orchestrator runs scanners in parallel with timeouts and aggregates results
• Scanners: headers, ssl, ports, vulns (XSS/SQLi + DOM), zap (optional)
• Reporter prints human or JSON output; exit code signals severity

License

MIT