• Testing Web Application Security Scanners
• Testing Static Code Analysis tools (SCA)
• Giving an introductory course to Web Application Security

The motivation for creating this tool came after reading “anantasec-report.pdf” which is included in the release file which you are free to download. The main objective of this tool is to give the community a ready to use testbed for web application security tools. For almost every web application vulnerability in existance, there is a test script available in moth.

Other tools like this are available but they lack one very important feature: a list of vulnerabilities included in the Web Applications! In our case, we used the results gathered in the anantasec report to solve this issue without any extra work.

There are three different ways to access the web applications and vulnerable scripts:

• Directly
• Through mod_security
• Through PHP-IDS (only if the web application is written in PHP)

Both mod_security and PHP-IDS have their default configurations and they show a log of the offending request when one is found. This is very useful for testing web application scanners, and teaching students how web application firewalls work. The beauty is that a user may access the same vulnerable script using the three methods; which helps a lot in the learning process.

Click here to download moth from sourceforge.