CTFd v2.4.3 releases: Capture The Flag framework

What is CTFd?

CTFd is a Capture The Flag framework focusing on ease of use and customizability. It comes with everything you need to run a CTF and it’s easy to customize with plugins and themes.

Features

• Create your own challenges, categories, hints, and flags from the Admin Interface
  • Static & Regex based flags
  • Users can unlock hints for free or with points
  • File uploads to the server or Amazon S3
  • Limit challenge attempts & hide challenges
  • Automatic submission throttling
• Scoreboard with automatic tie resolution
  • Hide Scores from the public
  • Freeze Scores at a specific time
  • Dynamic Scoring
• Scoregraphs comparing the top 10 teams and team progress graphs
• Markdown content management system
• SMTP + Mailgun email support
  • Email confirmation support
  • Forgot password support
• Automatic competition starting and ending
• Team management & hiding
• Customize everything using the plugin and theme interfaces
• Importing and Exporting of CTF data for archival
• And a lot more…

Changelog v2.4.3

Miscellaneous

• Notifications/Events endpoint will now immediately send a ping instead of waiting a few seconds.
• Upgrade gunicorn dependency to 19.10.0
• Upgrade boto3 dependency to 1.13.9
• Improve import_ctf() reliability by closing all connections before dropping & recreating database
• Close database session in IP tracking code in failure situations to avoid potential dangling database connections
• Don’t allow backups to be imported if they do not have a db folder
• Change import_ctf() process slightly to import built-in tables first and then plugin tables
• Handle exception where a regex Flag is invalid

API

• File deletion endpoint (DELETE /api/v1/files/[file_id]) will now correctly delete the associated file

Plugins

• Add CTFd.plugins.get_plugin_names() to get a list of available plugins
• Add CTFd.plugins.migrations.current() to get the current revision of a plugin migration
• Improve CTFd.plugins.migrations.upgrade() to be able to upgrade to a specific plugin migration
• Run plugin migrations during import process

Themes

• Update jQuery to v3.5.1 to fix mobile hamburger menu
• Upgrade some dependencies in yarn lockfile
• Fix invalid team link being generated in scoreboard.js

Admin Panel

• Fix sending of user creation notification email
• Fix button to remove users from teams

Install

1. git clone https://github.com/CTFd/CTFd.git
2. Run ./prepare.sh to install dependencies using apt.
3. Modify CTFd/config.py to your liking.
4. Use python serve.py in a terminal to drop into debug mode.
5. Here are some deployment options
6. You can check out the Getting Started guide for a breakdown of some of the features you need to get started.

Tutorial

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Source: https://github.com/CTFd