Here is the best web hacking tools that helps you in pen-testing and protecting the websites.
Burp Suite:
Burp Suite is a graphical tool used for testing Web application security. It helps you identify vulnerabilities and verify attack vectors that are affecting web applications.
While browsing the target application, a penetration tester can configure its internet browser to route traffic through the Burp Suite proxy server. Burp Suite then acts as a “Man In The Middle” by capturing and analyzing each request to and from the target web application so that they can be analyzed. Burp suite testers can pause, manipulate and replay individual HTTP requests in order to analyze potential parameters or injection points.
Metasploit:
Metasploit is the most used penetration testing framework. It provides complete information about security vulnerabilities and aids in penetration testing and IDS signature development. Metasploit also facilitates Opcode Database and shellcode archives. This is pre-installed in the Kali Linux operating system.
Nikto web server scanner
Nikto performs over 6000 tests against a website. A large number of tests for both security vulnerabilities and misconfigured web servers makes it a go-to tool for many security professionals and systems administrators. It can find forgotten scripts and other hard to detect problems from an external perspective.
Recon-ng
Recon-ng is a full-featured Web Reconnaissance framework written in Python. It is complete with independent modules, database interaction, builtin convenience functions, interactive help, and command completion. Recon-ng provides a powerful environment in which open source web-based reconnaissance can be conducted quickly and thoroughly.
Zed Attack Proxy :
Zed Attack Proxy helps you to automatically find security vulnerabilities in the web apps while you are developing and testing your applications. This can also be used for the purpose of manual security testing.
ACSTIS :
ACSTIS helps you to scan web applications for AngularJS Client-Side Template Injection (sometimes referred to as CSTI, sandbox escape or sandbox bypass). It supports scanning a single request but also crawling the entire web application for the AngularJS CSTI vulnerability.
W3af:
W3af (web application attack and audit framework) is an open-source web application security scanner. It provides information about security vulnerabilities for use in penetration testing engagements. The scanner offers a graphical user interface and a command-line interface, which makes the tool super essential!
WPScan:
WPScan effectively scans your WordPress website and checks the vulnerabilities within the core version, plugins, themes, etc helping to spot the security issues.
This is one most effective tool using which, you scan your website thoroughly to check vulnerabilities with easy commands and isolate them!
Netsparker web vulnerability scanner:
Netsparker is one single platform for all the web app security needs. It is completely Automatic, United and Scalable.
The speciality is that, Netsparker uses the Proof-Based-Scanning technology to automatically verify false positives and save hundreds of man hours. As it is also intergrated with many varieties of tools, the process will be steady and streamlined.
Vega:
Vega is an Open Source tool for analyzing web applications security. It is a GUID based tool that can be used to test disclosure of sensitive information, such as SQL injection, blind SQL injection, reflected cross Site scripting, stored cross site scripting, shell injections, and file inclusion vulnerabilities. A complete list of scanning modules can be viewed from the user interface.
