Gin & Juice Shop

Overview

Gin & Juice Shop is a closed source vulnerable app maintained by PortSwigger.

Despite claiming to be a modern app is is actually relatively traditional (it is not a Single Page App), which makes it easier to scan.

Potential Pitfalls

This is an online app which may be unavailable or broken at any point. It is not possible to run a local version.

Authentication

Known users (username / password):

  • carlos / hunter2

Browser Based Authentication

ZAP can successfully authenticate to this app using Browser Based Authentication and will successfully identify the session handling and verification.

Note that you should use the URL https://ginandjuice.shop/login as there is not an easy to find link to the login page from the top URL.

Client Script Authentication

ZAP can successfully authenticate to this app using Client Script Authentication and will successfully identify the session handling and verification.

env:
  contexts:
  - name: "Gin N Juice Shop"
    urls:
    - https://ginandjuice.shop
    includePaths:
    - https://ginandjuice.shop.*
    excludePaths:
    - https://ginandjuice.shop/logout
    authentication:
      method: browser
      parameters:
        loginPageUrl: https://ginandjuice.shop/login
        loginPageWait: 2
        browserId: firefox
        steps: []
      verification:
        method: poll
        loggedInRegex: \Q 200 OK\E
        loggedOutRegex: \Q 302 Found\E
        pollFrequency: 60
        pollUnits: requests
        pollUrl: https://ginandjuice.shop/my-account
        pollPostData: ""
    sessionManagement:
      method: headers
      parameters: {}
    users:
    - name: carlos
      credentials:
        password: hunter2
        username: carlos
  parameters: {}

Crawling

All of the spiders are effective against this app. We recommend using the Traditional Spider as well as one of the modern ones:

For the AJAX Spider you need to exclude the logout link:

- type: spiderAjax
  parameters:
    context: "Gin N Juice Shop"
    user: carlos
    browserId: firefox-headless
    excludedElements:
    - description: Logout
      element: a
      text: Log out

Scanning

Gin & Juice Shop has a well documented set of vulnerabilities.