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...
Install
- Run
./prepare.shto install dependencies using apt (or./prepare-osx.shusing brew). - Modify CTFd/config.py to your liking.
- Use
python serve.pyin a terminal to drop into debug mode. - Here are some deployment options
- You can check out the Getting Started guide for a breakdown of some of the features you need to get started.
Live Demo
Support
To get basic support, you can join the CTFd Slack Community:
If you prefer commercial support or have a special project, send us an email: support@ctfd.io.
Managed Hosting
Looking to use CTFd but don't want to deal with managing infrastructure? Check out the CTFd website for managed CTFd deployments.
HackerFire
Looking for CTF challenges to work on? HackerFire is a learning focused CTF built using CTFd. It features a wide variety of challenges and is updated with new content frequently. It also contains custom knowledge resources to teach newcomers about the techniques used to solve a challenge.
Credits
- Logo by Laura Barbera
- Theme by Christopher Thompson