Deploy and Host OWASP Juice Shop on Railway

OWASP Juice Shop is a deliberately vulnerable modern web application designed for security training, awareness demos, CTF events, and hands-on practice. It covers over 100 challenges across all OWASP Top Ten vulnerability categories, including injection, broken authentication, XSS, sensitive data exposure, and more.

About Hosting OWASP Juice Shop

Juice Shop is a Node.js application served via Docker that runs entirely in-memory with no persistent database — progress resets on each redeploy, which is intentional and useful for repeatable training scenarios. This Railway template deploys the official Docker image as a single service with no additional dependencies. There are no credentials to configure and no environment variables required. Once deployed, navigate to the public Railway URL, find the Score Board challenge to unlock the challenge tracker, and start hacking.

⚠️ Juice Shop is intentionally insecure. Do not deploy it on a network or domain where it could be mistaken for a legitimate service, and do not store any real data in it.

Common Use Cases

Hands-on security training — work through 100+ graded challenges covering injection, XSS, broken access control, cryptographic issues, insecure deserialization, and more, with built-in hints and a progress tracker on the Score Board
CTF event hosting — deploy a dedicated Juice Shop instance per team for capture-the-flag competitions; redeploy between rounds to reset state and flags
Security tool testing — use Juice Shop as a safe, legal target for evaluating DAST scanners, fuzzing tools, SAST rules, and WAF configurations against a realistic application with known vulnerabilities

Dependencies for OWASP Juice Shop Hosting

OWASP Juice Shop Docker image — used directly by this template
No database, volume, or environment variables required

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Juice Shop covers 100+ challenges across 15 vulnerability categories:

Category	Examples
Injection	SQL injection login bypass, NoSQL manipulation, SSTI
XSS	DOM XSS, reflected XSS, CSP bypass, HTTP-header XSS
Broken Access Control	Admin section access, CSRF, SSRF, basket manipulation
Broken Authentication	Password strength, 2FA bypass, account takeover
Sensitive Data Exposure	Confidential document retrieval, GDPR data theft, leaked backups
Vulnerable Components	JWT forgery, arbitrary file write, supply chain attack
Cryptographic Issues	Forged coupons, weak hashing
Security Misconfiguration	Deprecated interfaces, error handling exposure

Finding the Score Board — the Score Board is itself a challenge (finding it is your first task). Once discovered, it tracks all challenge completions with star ratings and optional hints. Use it to navigate the difficulty curve — start with one-star challenges and work up.

Resetting progress — since Juice Shop stores state in memory, redeploying the Railway service wipes all progress and resets the application to a clean state. Useful for CTF resets or restarting a training session.

Why Deploy OWASP Juice Shop on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying OWASP Juice Shop on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.