WebGoat is a deliberately insecure web application maintained by OWASP designed to teach web application security lessons.
This program is a demonstration of common server-side application flaws. The exercises are intended to be used by people to learn about application security and penetration testing techniques.
WARNING 1: While running this program your machine will be extremely vulnerable to attack. You should disconnect from the Internet while using this program. WebGoat's default configuration binds to localhost to minimize the exposure.
WARNING 2: This program is for educational purposes only. If you attempt these techniques without authorization, you are very likely to get caught. If you are caught engaging in unauthorized hacking, most companies will fire you. Claiming that you were doing security research will not work as that is the first thing that all hackers claim.
Every release is also published on DockerHub.
The easiest way to start WebGoat as a Docker container is to use the all-in-one docker container. This is a docker image that has WebGoat and WebWolf running inside.
docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 9090:9090 -e TZ=Europe/Amsterdam webgoat/goatandwolf
WebGoat will be located at: http://127.0.0.1:8080/WebGoat WebWolf will be located at: http://127.0.0.1:9090/WebWolf
Important: Choose the correct timezone, so that the docker container and your host are in the same timezone. As it important for the validity of JWT tokens used in certain exercises.
Another way to deply WebGoat and WebWolf in a more advanced way is to use a compose-file in a docker stack deploy. You can define which containers should run in which combinations and define all of this in a yaml file. An example of such a file is: goat-with-reverseproxy.yaml
This sets up an nginx webserver as reverse proxy to WebGoat and WebWolf. You can change the timezone by adjusting the value in the yaml file.
docker stack init
docker stack deploy --compose-file goat-with-reverseproxy.yaml webgoatdemo
Add the following entries in your local hosts file:
127.0.0.1 www.webgoat.local www.webwolf.localhost
You can use the overall start page: http://www.webgoat.local or:
WebGoat will be located at: http://www.webgoat.local/WebGoat
WebWolf will be located at: http://www.webwolf.local/WebWolf
Important: the current directory on your host will be mapped into the container for keeping state.
Download the latest WebGoat and WebWolf release from https://github.com/WebGoat/WebGoat/releases
java -jar webgoat-server-8.1.0.jar [--server.port=8080] [--server.address=localhost]
java -jar webwolf-8.1.0.jar [--server.port=9090] [--server.address=localhost]
The latest version of WebGoat needs Java 11 or above. By default WebGoat and WebWolf start on port 8080,9000 and 9090 with the environment variable WEBGOAT_PORT, WEBWOLF_PORT and WEBGOAT_HSQLPORT you can set different values.
export WEBGOAT_PORT=18080
export WEBGOAT_HSQLPORT=19001
export WEBWOLF_PORT=19090
java -jar webgoat-server-8.1.0.jar
java -jar webwolf-8.1.0.jar
Use set in stead of export on Windows cmd.
- Java 11
- Maven > 3.2.1
- Your favorite IDE
- Git, or Git support in your IDE
Open a command shell/window:
git clone [email protected]:WebGoat/WebGoat.git
Now let's start by compiling the project.
cd WebGoat
git checkout <<branch_name>>
mvn clean install
Now we are ready to run the project. WebGoat 8.x is using Spring-Boot.
mvn -pl webgoat-server spring-boot:run
... you should be running webgoat on localhost:8080/WebGoat momentarily
To change IP address add the following variable to WebGoat/webgoat-container/src/main/resources/application.properties file
server.address=x.x.x.x
For specialist only. There is a way to set up WebGoat with a personalized menu. You can leave out some menu categories or individual lessons by setting environment variables.
For instance running as a jar on a Linux/MacOS it will look like:
export EXCLUDE_CATEGORIES="CLIENT_SIDE,GENERAL,CHALLENGE"
export EXCLUDE_LESSONS="SqlInjectionAdvanced,SqlInjectionMitigations"
java -jar webgoat-server/target/webgoat-server-v8.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
Or in a docker run it would (once this version is pushed into docker hub) look like:
docker run -d -p 80:8888 -p 8080:8080 -p 9090:9090 -e TZ=Europe/Amsterdam -e EXCLUDE_CATEGORIES="CLIENT_SIDE,GENERAL,CHALLENGE" -e EXCLUDE_LESSONS="SqlInjectionAdvanced,SqlInjectionMitigations" webgoat/goatandwolf