/flawful_forum

A project work for the Helsinki Open University course Cyber Security Base 2020. Contains intentional security flaws!

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Flawful Forum

About

This is a Django-based project work for the Helsinki Open University MOOC course Cyber Security Base 2020.

The project consists of a simple message forum that contains several intentional security flaws in order to demonstrate the OWASP Top 10 Web Application Security Risks.

Instructions

First, clone the project with git clone https://github.com/joonaspartanen/flawful_forum.

Then, navigate to the flawful_forum/ directory and run the following commands:

python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py runserver

The application can now be accessed on port 8000.

On startup, the application creates two users for test purposes (one with admin rights):

Username Password
superadmin verysecret
testuser quitesecret