Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA)

For testing web security tools a target which has plenty vulnerabilities is needed. The Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) provides a PHP/MySQL web application that is damn vulnerable.

Install lighttpd, PHP, and MySql

Basic Installation

For installing the additional packages first activate community packages and update the package index

Install the required packages:

# apk add lighttpd php82 fcgi php82-cgi

Configure Lighttpd

Edit lighttpd.conf (/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf) and uncomment the line:

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

... include "mod_fastcgi.conf" ...

Edit mod_fastcgi.conf (/etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf), find and change /usr/bin/php-cgi to /usr/bin/php-cgi82.

Contents of /etc/lighttpd/mod_fastcgi.conf

... "bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php-cgi82" # php-cgi ...

Start lighttpd service and add it to default runlevel

# rc-service lighttpd start # rc-update add lighttpd default

Install extra packages:

apk add php-mysql mysql mysql-client

Installing and configuring Piwik

Create the a folder named webapps

mkdir -p /usr/share/webapps/

Download the source archive and unpack it

cd /usr/share/webapps/ wget http://dvwa.googlecode.com/files/DVWA-1.0.7.zip

Unpack the archive and remove it

unzip DVWA-1.0.7.zip rm DVWA-1.0.7.zip

Change the folder permissions

chmod -R 777 /usr/share/webapps/

Create a symlinks to the folder dvwa

ln -s /usr/share/webapps/dvwa/ /var/www/localhost/htdocs/dvwa

Configuration and start MySql

/usr/bin/mysql_install_db --user=mysql /etc/init.d/mysql start && rc-update add mysql default /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'password'

Modify the database credentials within DVWA configuration file /config/config.inc.php

nano -w /usr/share/webapps/dvwa/config/config.inc.php

To complete the setup, browse to the DVWA directory on the webserver.

http://WEBSERVER_IP_ADDRESS/dvwa

Follow the link to setup the database.