Setup DVWS Web Pen-testing Lab in Kali Linux

Damn Vulnerable Web Services [ DVWS ] now Learn real world hacking in personal Lab setup legally. Learn How to setup DVWS lab in Kali Linux which is also in itself is a hacking environment. So follow the simple steps below after a small introduction to DVWS

DVWS lets you test your skills on the following –

• WSDL Enumeration
• XML External Entity Injection
• XML Bomb Denial-of-Service
• XPATH Injection
• WSDL Scanning
• Cross Site-Tracing
• OS Command Injection
• Server Side Request Forgery
• SQL Injection
• Same Origin Method Execution
• JSON Web Token (JWT) Secret Key Brute Force
• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

Requirement for DVWS Kali Linux Lab Setup

• Kali Linux installed
• DVWS Packgae – [ Download here ]

Lets start the very very simple steps to get started with DVWS Lab in Kali Linux

First of all start your Kali Linux

Download the DVWS package from this link – [ Download DVWS ] , you may clone but [ git clone https://github.com/snoopysecurity/dvws ] or download zip from github

Now Extract the package downloaded and place the folder in
/var/www/html
NOTE: I have renamed folder from dvws-master to dvws for convinience

Now Open Terminal and type the following command to start apache2

systemctl start apache2

Now open you browser Chrome/ Firefox or any and go to – localhost/dvws
localhost/[foldername you copied the package in -me did in dvws]

That is all, we will cover more LAB setups soon to enhance your skils on different grounds on Hacking / Penetration Testing on multiple platforms.

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