Vulnerable Web Applications for learning

Update: 08/08/2010: Created a tabled output of the listing. Platforms for most applications added. More applications added to list thanks to comments.

Just a quick post. Someone on the ‘NULL’ mailing asked for WebGoat alternatives to learning Web Application penetration testing. The reponse was amazing, with many applications being listed as vulnerable web applications designed for learning web-app pentest. I have collected all vulnerable web applications and listed them below for reference:

S.No. Vulnerable Application Platform
1 SPI Dynamics (live) ASP
2 Cenzic (live) PHP
3 Watchfire (live) ASPX
4 Acunetix 1 (live) PHP
5 Acunetix 2 (live) ASP
6 Acunetix 3 (live) ASP.Net
7 PCTechtips Challenge (live)
8 Damn Vulnerable Web Application PHP/MySQL
9 Mutillidae PHP
10 The Butterfly Security Project PHP
11 Hacme Casino Ruby on Rails
12 Hacme Bank 2.0 ASP.NET (2.0)
13 Updated HackmeBank ASP.NET (2.0)
14 Hacme Books J2EE
15 Hacme Travel C++ (application client-server)
16 Hacme Shipping ColdFusion MX 7, MySQL
17 OWASP WebGoat JAVA
18 OWASP Vicnum PHP, Perl
19 OWASP InsecureWebApp JAVA
20 OWASP SiteGenerator ASP.NET
21 Moth
22 Stanford SecuriBench JAVA
23 SecuriBench Micro JAVA
24 BadStore Perl(CGI)
25 WebMaven/Buggy Bank (very old)
26 EnigmaGroup (live)
27 XSS Encoding Skills – x5s (Casaba Watcher)
28 Google – Gruyere (live) (previously Jarlsberg)
29 Exploit- DB Multi-platform


If you know of any other vulnerable web applications (which can be used as a platform for learning web-app pentest), drop a line in the comments.Let me know if any of the links appear dead.