Leveraging DVWA
Before moving on with the rest of the chapter, you need to know this great tool that will help you to better understand the vulnerabilities on web applications.
But also, we are going to use this platform to show you how you can test your web application against the most common attacks, such as the following:
- Brute-force attacks
- SQL injection attacks
Additionally, this lightweight and easy-to-install system has a lot of cool features such as the following:
- A platform to explore several web application vulnerabilities in a safe environment
- A great tool to create videos or real-time demos to raise awareness about those vulnerabilities
- A test environment to determine the impact of attacks on web applications
- A sandbox environment to test remediation actions
As mentioned, I strongly suggest you install the DVWA on a VM so that you can execute the labs that we will see in the upcoming section of this chapter, to see how...
