Gate deployments on WAF scan results with WAFtester Workflow Solution

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Useful for software delivery and engineering operations. Improves internal consulting operations and productivity.

What it does A CI/CD quality gate that blocks deployments when WAF protection is insufficient. Your pipeline sends a webhook with the target URL, the workflow runs WAFtester scans, and returns a pass/fail HTTP response the pipeline can gate on. About WAFtester WAFtester is an open-source CLI for testing Web Application Firewalls. It ships 27 MCP tools, 2,800+ attack payloads across 18 categories (SQLi, XSS, SSRF, SSTI, command injection, XXE, and more), detection signatures for 26 WAF vendors and 9 CDNs, and enterprise-grade assessment with F1/MCC scoring and letter grades (A+ through F). GitHub: github.com/waftester/waftester Docs: Installation | Examples | Commands Who it's for DevOps teams** enforcing security gates in CI/CD Platform engineers** automating deployment approvals Security teams** requiring pre-deploy WAF validation How it works The workflow has seven nodes: Webhook — Receives a POST with {"target": "https://staging.example.com", "categories": ["sqli", "xss"]} Detect WAF — Calls WAFtester's detect_waf tool to fingerprint the WAF vendor Start Scan — Launches an async scan task with the requested attack categories Wait — Pauses to let the scan run Poll Results — Calls get_task_status to retrieve completed results Evaluate — Compares the detection rate against WAF_PASS_THRESHOLD Respond — Returns HTTP 200 (pass, deploy allowed) or HTTP 422 (fail, deploy blocked) with bypass details CI/CD integration example In your pipeline RESPONSE=$(curl -s -w "%{http_code}" -o body.json \ -X POST https://your-AlekSystem/webhook/waf-gate \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"target": "https://staging.example.com", "categories": ["sqli", "xss"]}') if [ "$RESPONSE" != "200" ]; then echo "WAF gate failed"; exit 1; fi

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