ModSecurity
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx that is developed by Trustwave's SpiderLabs. It has a robust event-based programming language which provides protection from a range of attacks against web applications and allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging and real-time analysis. With over 10,000 deployments world-wide, ModSecurity is the most widely deployed WAF in existence.
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Overview
| Name With Owner | owasp-modsecurity/ModSecurity |
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| Primary Language | C++ |
| Program language | C (Language Count: 9) |
| Platform | |
| License: | Apache License 2.0 |
| Release Count | 109 |
| Last Release Name | v2.9.12 (Posted on 2025-08-06 03:14:10) |
| First Release Name | v2.1.0-rc7 (Posted on ) |
| Created At | 2011-02-02 22:57:01 |
| Pushed At | 2025-10-25 18:41:41 |
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| Stargazers Count | 9245 |
| Watchers Count | 378 |
| Fork Count | 1695 |
| Commits Count | 3699 |
| Has Issues Enabled | |
| Issues Count | 2497 |
| Issue Open Count | 238 |
| Pull Requests Count | 410 |
| Pull Requests Open Count | 26 |
| Pull Requests Close Count | 503 |
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