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SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.

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SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.

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What is SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.?

SafeLine is a self-hosted Web Application Firewall (WAF) that protects web applications from various attacks such as SQL injection, XSS, and more. It filters and monitors HTTP traffic, acting as a reverse proxy to shield the server from malicious clients. Key features include blocking web attacks, rate limiting, anti-bot challenges, and dynamic protection.

Documentation

👋 INTRODUCTION

SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.

A web application firewall helps protect web apps by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the Internet. It typically protects web apps from attacks such as SQL injection, XSS, code injection, os command injection, CRLF injection, ldap injection, xpath injection, RCE, XXE, SSRF, path traversal, backdoor, bruteforce, http-flood, bot abused, among others.

💡 How It Works

By deploying a WAF in front of a web application, a shield is placed between the web application and the Internet. While a proxy server protects a client machine’s identity by using an intermediary, a WAF is a type of reverse-proxy, protecting the server from exposure by having clients pass through the WAF before reaching the server.

A WAF protects your web apps by filtering, monitoring, and blocking any malicious HTTP/S traffic traveling to the web application, and prevents any unauthorized data from leaving the app. It does this by adhering to a set of policies that help determine what traffic is malicious and what traffic is safe. Just as a proxy server acts as an intermediary to protect the identity of a client, a WAF operates in similar fashion but acting as a reverse proxy intermediary that protects the web app server from a potentially malicious client.

its core capabilities include:

  • Defenses for web attacks
  • Proactive bot abused defense
  • HTML & JS code encryption
  • IP-based rate limiting
  • Web Access Control List

⚡️ Screenshots

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🔥 FEATURES

List of the main features as follows:

  • Block Web Attacks
  • It defenses for all of web attacks, such as SQL injection, XSS, code injection, os command injection, CRLF injection, XXE, SSRF, path traversal and so on.
  • Rate Limiting
  • Defend your web apps against DoS attacks, bruteforce attempts, traffic surges, and other types of abuse by throttling traffic that exceeds defined limits.
  • Anti-Bot Challenge
  • Anti-Bot challenges to protect your website from bot attacks, humen users will be allowed, crawlers and bots will be blocked.
  • Authentication Challenge
  • When authentication challenge turned on, visitors need to enter the password, otherwise they will be blocked.
  • Dynamic Protection
  • When dynamic protection turned on, html and js codes in your web server will be dynamically encrypted by each time you visit.

🧩 Showcases

Legitimate User Malicious User
Block Web Attacks
Rate Limiting
Anti-Bot Challenge
Auth Challenge
HTML Dynamic Protection
JS Dynamic Protection

🚀 Quickstart

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📦 Installing

Information on how to install SafeLine can be found in the Install Guide

⚙️ Protecting Web Apps

to see Configuration

📋 More Informations## Effect Evaluation

Metric ModSecurity, Level 1 CloudFlare, Free SafeLine, Balance SafeLine, Strict
Total Samples 33669 33669 33669 33669
Detection 69.74% 10.70% 71.65% 76.17%
False Positive 17.58% 0.07% 0.07% 0.22%
Accuracy 82.20% 98.40% 99.45% 99.38%

Is SafeLine Production-Ready?

Yes, SafeLine is production-ready.

  • Over 180,000 installations worldwide
  • Protecting over 1,000,000 Websites
  • Handling over 30,000,000,000 HTTP Requests Daily

🙋‍♂️ Community

Join our Discord to get community support, the core team members are identified by the STAFF role in Discord.

  • channel #feedback: for new features discussion.
  • channel #FAQ: for FAQ.
  • channel #general: for any other questions.

Several contact options exist for our community, the primary one being Discord. These are in addition to GitHub issues for creating a new issue.

💪 PRO Edition

Coming soon!

📝 License

See LICENSE for details.

Server Config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "safeline-is-a-self-hosted-waf-to-protect-your-web-apps-from-attacks-and-exploits.-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "safeline-is-a-self-hosted-waf-to-protect-your-web-apps-from-attacks-and-exploits."
      ]
    }
  }
}

Links & Status

Repository: github.com
Hosted: Yes
Global: No
Official: Yes

Project Info

Hosted Featured
Created At: Aug 07, 2025
Updated At: Aug 07, 2025
Author: Chaitin Technology
Category: Web Application Security
License: See [LICENSE](/LICENSE.md) for details.
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