introduction.md

Introduction

This is the official companion guide to the E. Corp Shop application. Being a web application with a vast number of intended security vulnerabilities, the E. Corp Shop is supposed to be the opposite of a best practice or template application for web developers: It is an awareness, training, demonstration and exercise tool for security risks in modern web applications.

This game is a mod of the excellent OWASP Juice Shop - written by Björn Kimminich. For full immersion and to have some fun we will refer to the Juice Shop in the documentation as the 'E. Corp Shop' - in order to get the full experience. Please note this is a condensed version to help gamers get up to spend quickly. Have fun!

The book is divided into three parts:

Part I - Hacking preparations

Part one helps you to get the application running and to set up optional hacking tools.

Part II - Challenge hunting

Part two gives an overview of the vulnerabilities found in the E. Corp Shop including hints how to find and exploit them in the application.

Part III - Next Level {#part-iii-next-level}

Part three covers what comes next... what can you do to keep playing and learning new tricks. Well, have we got a surprise for you...!

Disclaimer

Please be aware that this book is not supposed to be a comprehensive introduction to Web Application Security in general. For every category of vulnerabilities present in the E. Corp Shop you will find a brief explanation - typically by quoting and referencing to existing content on the given topic.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.