OWASP Autumn of Code 2006 - Projects: Web Goat

AoC Candidate: Sherif

Project Coordinator: Jeff Williams

Project Progress: xx% Complete - Progress Page

Background and Motivation

History Behind Project WebGoat is a teaching tool designed to teach web application security lessons. Each lesson, users must demonstrate their understanding of a security issue by exploiting a real vulnerability in the application. 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

Problem to be Addressed WebGoat needs to be updated with more lessons. Since there are some attacks that are not covered in the current set of classes like HTTP splitting and AJAX attacks. Also, there are uncompleted lessons which does not make the product look professional enough for OWASP users. Some lesson plans also needs

Benefit to OWASP Members and Community

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Risks and Rewards

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