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Damn Vulnerable Web App Exploitation
In this lab, you’ll practice web application penetration testing. You will be acting as a penetration tester that is evaluating the website for a company called Globomantics for security vulnerabilities. When you’re finished, you’ll have an understanding of how to perform multiple web application security checks/attacks, and will be capable of performing web application security assessments.
Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Challenge
Exploiting Unsecure Object References with File Inclusions
You have discovered that Globomantics uses file inclusion to display text to its users. You will test for a file inclusion vulnerability, to see if you can view other files on the web server.
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Bypassing Access Controls Using File Upload Attacks
You have discovered that Globomantics allows its users to upload images to the web server. You will perform a check of the upload features filters to see if they can be bypassed to upload malicious files to the server.
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Exploiting Weak Session IDs
You observe that Globomantic’s website uses session IDs to control access to user sessions. You will perform a check to see if this has been implemented securely or if it can be bypassed to gain access to other user’s sessions.
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Final Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
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