What is CRS?

The OWASP CRS is a set of firewall rules, which can be loaded into ModSecurity or compatible web application firewalls. The CRS consists of various .conf files, each containing generic signatures for a common attack category, such as SQL Injection (SQLi), Cross Site Scripting (XSS), et cetera. It uses string matching, regular expression checks, and the libinjection SQLi/XSS parser.