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OWASP WebGoat Project

WebGoat 7.0 is almost done. The 6.0 release updated the UI and some infrastructure. The 7.0 release separates the WebGoat Lessons from the WebGoat framework. Lessons are now plugins that can be worked on without the code overhead of the WebGoat framework. This change with more UI improvements was a significant achievement. Thank you to all the volunteers!!


Help Needed:

  • We have an immediate need for Lesson Testing. We are using GitHub issue tracking, so jump in and give some of the lessons a try. We accept bugs, productive comments, and enhancement requests.
  • The new plugin architecture isolates the content to be translated to each lesson. We could use some help with translating content and identifying quick wins for framework text that needs to be added to the translation properties. Send email to the WebGoat mailing list if you wish to help out here.
  • We also need UI developers with javascript (Backbone/Underscore/JQuery and/or Single Page Application ... preferred, not required) experience as well as someone with design experience. Please send an email to Bruce Mayhew [email protected] and/or [email protected] if you are interested in helping.
  • We need some new lessons. If you've run across a particularly interesting exploit in the field, create a lesson for it and contribute to the community. Instructions for creating a lesson are under the General menu in WebGoat.

Introduction

WebGoat is a deliberately insecure web application maintained by OWASP designed to teach web application security lessons. You can install and practice with WebGoat in either J2EE (this page) or WebGoat for .Net in ASP.NET. In each lesson, users must demonstrate their understanding of a security issue by exploiting a real vulnerability in the WebGoat applications. For example, in one of the lessons the user must use SQL injection to steal fake credit card numbers. The application is a realistic teaching environment, providing users with hints and code to further explain the lesson.

Why the name "WebGoat"? Developers should not feel bad about not knowing security. Even the best programmers make security errors. What they need is a scapegoat, right? Just blame it on the 'Goat!

To get started:

Description

WebGoat for J2EE is written in Java and therefore installs on any platform with a Java virtual machine. There are installation programs for Linux, OS X Tiger and Windows. Once deployed, the user can go through the lessons and track their progress with the scorecard. There are currently over 30 lessons, including those dealing with the following issues:

For more details, please see the WebGoat User and Install Guide.


Licensing

OWASP WebGoat Project is free to use. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

Project Sponsors

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What is WebGoat?

OWASP WebGoat Project provides:

Web application security is difficult to learn and practice. Not many people have full blown web applications like online book stores or online banks that can be used to scan for vulnerabilities. In addition, security professionals frequently need to test tools against a platform known to be vulnerable to ensure that they perform as advertised. All of this needs to happen in a safe and legal environment. Even if your intentions are good, we believe you should never attempt to find vulnerabilities without permission. The primary goal of the WebGoat project is simple: create a de-facto interactive teaching environment for web application security. In the future, the project team hopes to extend WebGoat into becoming a security benchmarking platform and a Java-based Web site Honeypot.


Presentation

Aung Khant (YGN Ethical Hacker Group) has created a series of movies showing possible solutions to the WebGoat lessons. These training movies can be viewed at

http://yehg.net/lab/pr0js/training/webgoat.php

Feel free to contact him for any help with WebGoat.

Project Leaders

Bruce Mayhew
Nanne Baars
Jason White

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Q: Are you aware that lesson X does not work?

A: We may be. Head over to https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat-Lessons and log an issue if there is a specific, you have encountered on a lesson. Give us as much information as you can.


Q: When will WebGoat 7 be 'released'?

A: As soon as we can get a critical mass of lessons we feel are necessary. Current target is late January to Early Feb. 2016


The rest are questions we hope people ask, but maybe haven't really yet ...


Q: Do you need help?

A: Of course we would always love help, especially with testing and feedback. Experienced Java, UI and Design folk are welcome as well. Security professionals willing to develop content are also welcome, of course.


Q: How do I get involved?

A: Fork the repo. (https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/) you want to work on and stay in sync with the mainstream development in master (https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/)


Q: What's the difference between the repo at https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat and the repo at https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat

A: As of WebGoat 7, the architecture is more modular and lessons can be loaded dynamically. The first repo is for the 'container' or main 'framework' for containing lessons. The WebGoat-Lessons repo. is for lesson development


Q: How do I author a lesson for WebGoat?

A: We are working on that. For WebGoat 8, we plan to make that much simpler (read, no more ECS!). We still hope/plan to provide a stripped down lesson template for 7.x

Volunteers

The WebGoat project is run by Bruce Mayhew. He can be contacted at webgoat AT owasp.org. WebGoat distributions are currently maintained on GitHub. The WebGoat framework makes it extremely easy to add additional lessons. We are actively seeking developers to add new lessons as new web technologies emerge. If you are interested in volunteering for the project, or have a comment, question, or suggestion, please join the WebGoat mailing list.

The project's overall goal is to... 

 Be the defacto standard web application security training environment

In the near term, we are focused on the following tactical goals...

  1. Test all the lessons in WebGoat 7
  2. Add educational support for secure coding practices
  3. Enhance enterprise lesson tracking
  4. Attract more contributions of lessons
  5. Translate all lessons to other languages
  6. Increase ease-of-use and expand user base

Here are the current tasks defined to help us achieve these goals

Architectural

  • Create a service layer (done)
  • Creater plugin architecture and port all lessons to plugins (done)
  • Remove dependencies on Tomcat (done)
  • Rewrite user administration to allow better user management (non-hackable)
  • Fix Logoff (done)
  • Defuse all lessons to disallow inadvertent harm to user's OS

General

  • General security cleanup. Remove exploits that are not lesson specific
  • Remove non working lessons

New Lessons

  • Server side forward allows access to WEB-INF resources
  • XML attacks - Entity recursion, ...

For more information contact Bruce Mayhew at webgoat at owasp dot org


Involvement in the development and promotion of WebGoat is actively encouraged! You do not have to be a security expert in order to contribute.

PROJECT INFO
What does this OWASP project offer you? 		RELEASE(S) INFO
What releases are available for this project?
what is this project?
Name: OWASP WebGoat Project
Purpose: WebGoat for J2EE is written in Java and therefore installs on any platform with a Java virtual machine. There are installation programs for Linux, OS X Tiger and Windows. Once deployed, the user can go through the lessons and track their progress with the scorecard
License: GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)
who is working on this project?
Project Leader(s):
  • Bruce Mayhew @
  • Nanne Baars @
  • Jason White @
how can you learn more?
Project Pamphlet: Not Yet Created
Project Presentation:
Mailing list: Mailing List Archives
Project Roadmap: Not Yet Created
Key Contacts
  • Contact Bruce Mayhew @ to contribute to this project
  • Contact Bruce Mayhew @ to review or sponsor this project
current release
WebGoat 7.0.1

https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/releases

last reviewed release
Not Yet Reviewed


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