Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) - installation 2018

for anyone trying today to install DVWA, thing changed a little, took me a while to get it working, so here it is:

IMPORTANT - su if you are not root user (i.e. not kali)

1. download the latest version 

to get it working with MariaDB and PHP v7.x

wget https://github.com/ethicalhack3r/DVWA/archive/master.zip && unzip master.zip

unzip under /var/www/html, rename folder to dvwa


2. config file

cd /var/www/html/dvwa/config
cp config.inc.php.dist config.inc.php
gedit config.inc.php

create captcha keys
https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html
and set in $_DVWA[ 'recaptcha_public/private_key' ]

start at low difficulty

 $_DVWA[ 'default_security_level' ] = 'low';

you need to clean cookies if the dvwa was running


3. set user in MariaDB

sudo service mysql start
mysql -u root -p

db commands...

mysql > create database dvwa;
mysql > CREATE USER dvwa@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'p@ssw0rd';
mysql > grant all on dvwa.* to dvwa@localhost;
mysql > flush privileges;
mysql > exit


4. enable file inclusion

gedit /etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini

find and set
allow_url_fopen = On
allow_url_include = On


5. copy files to "root" folder

cp -a /var/www/html/dvwa/dvwa/. /var/www/html/dvwa/



 the end is just a new beginning


service apache2 restart && service mysql restart

exit if you are in su and

firefox 127.0.0.1/dvwa/setup.php



i added to my .bashrc the following to run dwva from terminal easy

echo "type 'dvwa' to init and open dvwa"
alias dvwa='sudo service apache2 restart && sudo service mysql restart && firefox 127.0.0.1/dvwa'



BONUS

if you are annoyed loke me for the help/source buttons opening in popups and not in new tabs:

sudo gedit /var/www/html/dvwa/js/add_event_listeners.js 

and change (twice)

popUp(url);

to

window.open(url);



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