Sneh Bavarva

burplabs

July 21, 2025 • ☕︎ 2 min read

Burplabs

burplabs is a modular, Python-based CLI tool that automates solving labs from PortSwigger Web Security Academy .
Its like like netexec, but made for web apps.

Github: burplabs

It currently has 113/269 labs and I am adding rest of the labs daily.

I know this not something new but this helped me to get better with Python Scripting and I adjusted many other things. I recommend to try this when you know how lab is solved and just want to solve it. Please do not use this before understanding the concepts.

Features

  • CLI interface
  • Modular architecture – each lab is a standalone Python file
  • Custom Proxy and No Proxy also support (--proxy, --no-proxy)
  • Docker-compatible
  • Easily extensible - add your own code if you want!

Installation

Windows

python -m venv burplabs-venv
.\burplabs-venv\scripts\Activate.ps1
pip install burplabs

Option 2: Git clone

git clone https://github.com/spbavarva/portswigger-labs-scripts.git
cd portswiggerlab
pip install .

(Docker will be added soon)

Usage

View Help

burplabs -h
Burplabs Help

List All Available Labs

burplabs --list-labs

Interactive Mode

burplabs --interactive

and then just follow the steps. You can even enter custom proxy when it prompts or if you want to use burp proxy then just open burp and hit ‘Y’ when it prompts for default proxy to get requests on your burp.

Or you can hit ’n’ when it prompts and you don’t need to open burp at all.

Interactive Mode

Adding New Labs

To add a new lab:

  1. Create a new file in burplabs/labs/name-of-the-folder, e.g. sql_lab3.py
  2. It must define a run(url, payload, proxies=None) function
  3. That’s it! The lab will be auto-detected and usable like:
portswiggerlab sql_lab3 --url ... --payload ...

Author

Credit to Rana Khalil for inspiring me for this!
Built by Sneh aka mystic_mido
If you like it, give it a ⭐ on GitHub !