michsch/insecurity

A educational web application that consists of a plethora of security vulnerabilities held together by some functionality.

Insecurity

What is this all about?

This project is a web application that consists of a plethora of security vulnerabilities held together by some functionality.

This project has been created as an educational resource for workshops on PHP web security. You could use in several ways:

• show the attendees the vulnerabilities and how to fix them
• have the attendees search for vulnerabilities
• have the attendees fix the vulnerabilities

Warning

Never, ever put this project on any web server that is accessible from the internet. Your server will get hacked.

Installation

Copy this project into the document root of some virtual host on your machine (either directly into the document root or in a subdirectory). Enable PHP and indexes for that virtual host.

Then add a MySQL DB and a user for it with sufficient permissions and import the file db/users.sql into it.

Copy configuration/db_template.json to configuration/db.json and fill in the DB connection data.

Contributing

Contributions in the form of bug fixes, more vulnerabilities or clean-up in the form of pull requests is always more than welcome.

Please do not report any security vulnerabilities, and please do not submit pull requests with security fixes - you're missing the point.

License

The application is licensed under the Gnu Public License (GPL) V3.

The included Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery are licensed under the MIT License (MIT).