w3af's moth

A set of vulnerable PHP scripts used to test w3af's vulnerability detection features.

The main repository for the w3af project can be found here.

Usage

The easiest way to use w3af-moth is to start a docker container:

sudo docker run -p 80:80 -p 2222:22 andresriancho/w3af-moth

And then add the following lines to your /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1 intranet
127.0.0.1 default
127.0.0.1 moth

Please note that you can build the docker image yourself:

sudo docker build -t andresriancho/w3af-moth .

Or simply get it from the registry:

sudo docker pull andresriancho/w3af-moth

Use SSH to connect to moth with root and MxqQt6iKUP6igE as password:

ssh root@127.0.0.1 -p 2222

History

Moth was born as a test environment for the w3af project can be found here. The code that lives in this repository was usually bundled in a Virtual Machine and used from there.

After years of development I decided to move most of the features provided by this code to two different repositories:

• https://github.com/andresriancho/django-moth
• https://github.com/andresriancho/php-moth

The decision was made while writing unittests for w3af, which needed to run easily on our CI system, and w3af-moth wasn't designed to be used in that way (too many custom Apache configs, ugly PHP configs, etc).

Django-moth, received most of the attention and code. This is the repository which holds most of the test cases for the w3af framework.

PHP-moth is a much smaller test suite which only contains test scripts for PHP-specific vulnerabilities.

Deprecation warning

While you can still use this repository for testing your scanner, education or any other purpose, I don't guarantee that I'll fix bugs, issues, or improve it in any way.