3.0.0a1 / 2020-07-01

General

CTFd is now Python 3 only
Render markdown with the CommonMark spec provided by cmarkgfm
Render markdown stripped of any malicious JavaScript or HTML.
- This is a significant change from previous versions of CTFd where any HTML content from an admin was considered safe.
Inject Config, User, Team, Session, and Plugin globals into Jinja
User sessions no longer store any user-specific attributes.
- Sessions only store the user's ID, CSRF nonce, and an hmac of the user's password
- This allows for session invalidation on password changes
The user facing side of CTFd now has user and team searching
GeoIP support now available for converting IP addresses to guessed countries

Admin Panel

Use EasyMDE as an improved description/text editor for Markdown enabled fields.
Media Library button now integrated into EasyMDE enabled fields
VueJS now used as the underlying implementation for the Media Library
Fix setting theme color in Admin Panel
Green outline border has been removed from the Admin Panel

API

Significant overhauls in API documentation provided by Swagger UI and Swagger json
Make almost all API endpoints provide filtering and searching capabilities
Change GET /api/v1/config/<config_key> to return structured data according to ConfigSchema

Themes

Themes now have access to the Configs global which provides wrapped access to get_config.
- For example, {{ Configs.ctf_name }} instead of get_ctf_name() or get_config('ctf_name')
Themes must now specify a challenge.html which control how a challenge should look.
The main library for charts has been changed from Plotly to Apache ECharts.
Forms have been moved into wtforms for easier form rendering inside of Jinja.
- From Jinja you can access forms via the Forms global i.e. {{ Forms }}
- This allows theme developers to more easily re-use a form without having to copy-paste HTML.
Themes can now provide a theme settings JSON blob which can be injected into the theme with {{ Configs.theme_settings }}
Core theme now includes the challenge ID in location hash identifiers to always refer the right challenge despite duplicate names

Plugins

Challenge plugins have changed in structure to better allow integration with themes and prevent obtrusive Javascript/XSS.
- Challenge rendering now uses challenge.html from the provided theme.
- Accessing the challenge view content is now provided by /api/v1/challenges/<challenge_id> in the view section. This allows for HTML to be properly sanitized and rendered by the server allowing CTFd to remove client side Jinja rendering.
- challenge.html now specifies what's required and what's rendered by the theme. This allows the challenge plugin to avoid having to deal with aspects of the challenge besides the description and input.
- A more complete migration guide will be provided when CTFd v3 leaves beta
Display current attempt count in challenge view when max attempts is enabled
get_standings(), get_team_stanadings(), get_user_standings() now has a fields keyword argument that allows for specificying additional fields that SQLAlchemy should return when building the response set.
- Useful for gathering additional data when building scoreboard pages
Flags can now control the message that is shown to the user by raising FlagException
Fix override_template() functionality

Deployment

Enable SQLAlchemy's pool_pre_ping by default to reduce the likelihood of database connection issues
Mailgun email settings are now deprecated. Admins should move to SMTP email settings instead.
Postgres is now considered a second class citizen in CTFd. It is tested against but not a main database backend. If you use Postgres, you are entirely on your own with regards to supporting CTFd.
Docker image now uses Debian instead of Alpine. See CTFd#1215 for rationale.
docker-compose.yml now uses a non-root user to connect to MySQL/MariaDB
config.py should no longer be editting for configuration, instead edit config.ini or the environment variables in docker-compose.yml

Miscellaneous

Lint Markdown files with Prettier
Lint Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml in Github Actions
Lint JavaScript files with eslint
Certain static strings have been converted into Enums for better re-useability throughout the code base
Main testing now done by Github Actions. Travis testing is deprecated but still used until full parity exists
Travis testing has been upgraded to use Ubuntu Bionic (18.04)

2.5.0 / 2020-06-04

General

Use a session invalidation strategy inspired by Django. Newly generated user sessions will now include a HMAC of the user's password. When the user's password is changed by someone other than the user the previous HMACs will no longer be valid and the user will be logged out when they next attempt to perform an action.
A user and team's place, and score are now cached and invalidated on score changes.

API

Add /api/v1/challenges?view=admin to allow admin users to see all challenges regardless of their visibility state
Add /api/v1/users?view=admin to allow admin users to see all users regardless of their hidden/banned state
Add /api/v1/teams?view=admin to allow admin users to see all teams regardless of their hidden/banned state
The scoreboard endpoint /api/v1/scoreboard is now significantly more performant (20x) due to better response generation
The top scoreboard endpoint /api/v1/scoreboard/top/<count> is now more performant (3x) due to better response generation
The scoreboard endpoint /api/v1/scoreboard will no longer show hidden/banned users in a non-hidden team

Deployment

docker-compose now provides a basic nginx configuration and deploys nginx on port 80
Dockerfile now installs python3 and python3-dev instead of python and python-dev because Alpine no longer provides those dependencies

Miscellaneous

The get_config and get_page config utilities now use SQLAlchemy Core instead of SQLAlchemy ORM for slight speedups
The get_team_standings and get_user_standings functions now return more data (id, oauth_id, name, score for regular users and banned, hidden as well for admins)
Update Flask-Migrate to 2.5.3 and regenerate the migration environment. Fixes using % signs in database passwords.

2.4.3 / 2020-05-24

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

2.4.2 / 2020-05-08

Admin Panel

Fix Challenge Reset in Admin Panel where Dynamic Challenges prevented resetting Challenges

Plugins

Add the CTFd.plugins.migrations module to allow plugins to handle migrations. Plugins should now call CTFd.plugins.migrations.upgrade instead of app.db.create_all which will allow the plugin to have database migrations.
Make Dynamic Challenges have a cascading deletion constraint against their respective Challenge row

Miscellaneous

Add app.plugins_dir object to refer to the directory where plugins are installed

2.4.1 / 2020-05-06

Admin Panel

Fix issue where admins couldn't update the "Account Creation" email
Fix issue where the Submissions page in the Admin Panel could not be paginated correctly

Miscellaneous

Add SQLALCHEMY_ENGINE_OPTIONS to config.py with a slightly higher default max_overflow setting for SQLALCHEMY_MAX_OVERFLOW. This can be overridden with the SQLALCHEMY_MAX_OVERFLOW envvar
Add node_modules/ to .dockerignore

2.4.0 / 2020-05-04

General

Cache user and team attributes and use those perform certain page operations intead of going to the database for data
- After modifying the user/team attributes you should call the appropriate cache clearing function (clear_user_session/clear_team_session)
Cache user IPs for the last hour to avoid hitting the database on every authenticated page view
- Update the user IP's last seen value at least every hour or on every non-GET request
Replace flask_restplus with flask_restx
Remove datafreeze, normality, and banal dependencies in favor of in-repo solutions to exporting database

Admin Panel

Add bulk selection and deletion for Users, Teams, Scoreboard, Challenges, Submissions
Make some Admin tables sortable by table headers
Create a score distribution graph in the statistics page
Make instance reset more granular to allow for choosing to reset Accounts, Submissions, Challenges, Pages, and/or Notificatoins
Properly update challenge visibility after updating challenge
Show total possible points in Statistics page
Add searching for Users, Teams, Challenges, Submissions
Move User IP addresses into a modal
Move Team IP addresses into a modal
Show User website in a user page button
Show Team website in a team page button
Make the Pages editor use proper HTML syntax highlighting
Theme header and footer editors now use CodeMirror
Make default CodeMirror font-size 12px
Stop storing last action via location hash and switch to using sessionStorage

Themes

Make page selection a select and option instead of having a lot of page links
Add the JSEnum class to create constants that can be accessed from webpack. Generate constants with python manage.py build jsenums
Add the JinjaEnum class to inject constants into the Jinja environment to access from themes
Update jQuery to 3.5.0 to resolve potential security issue
Add some new CSS utilities (.min-vh-* and .opacity-*)
Change some rows to have a minimum height so they don't render oddly without data
Deprecate .spinner-error CSS class
Deprecate accessing the type variable to check user role. Instead you should use is_admin()

Miscellaneous

Enable foreign key enforcement for SQLite. Only really matters for the debug server.
Remove the duplicated get_config from CTFd.models
Fix possible email sending issues in Python 3 by using EmailMessage
Dont set User type in the user side session. Instead it should be set in the new user attributes
Fix flask-profiler and bump dependency to 1.8.1
Switch to using the Faker library for populate.py instead of hardcoded data
Add a yarn lint command to run eslint on JS files
Always insert the current CTFd version at the end of the import process
Fix issue where files could not be downloaded on Windows

2.3.3 / 2020-04-12

General

Re-enable the Jinja LRU Cache for significant speedups when returning HTML content

API

POST /api/v1/unlocks will no longer allow duplicate unlocks to happen

Admin Panel

Makes Account Visibility subtext clearer by explaining the Private setting in Config Panel

Themes

Fixes an issue with using a theme with a purely numeric name
Fixes issue where the scoreboard graph always said Teams regardless of mode

Miscellaneous

Bump max log file size to 10 MB and fix log rotation
Docker image dependencies (apk & pip) are no longer cached reducing the image size slightly

2.3.2 / 2020-03-15

General

Fix awards not being properly assigned to teams in TEAMS_MODE

API

Set /api/v1/statistics/users route to be admins_only
When POST'ing to /api/v1/awards, CTFd will look up a user's team ID if team_id is not specified

Admin Panel

Adds a setting to registration visibility to allow for MLC registration while registration is disabled
Fix setting theme color during the setup flow and from the Admin Panel

Themes

Fixes users/admins being able to remove profile settings.
- Previously a bug prevented users from removing some profile settings. Now the core theme stores the initial value of inputs as a data attribute and checks for changes when updating data. This should be a temporary hack until a proper front-end framework is in place.
Fix ezToast() issue that was keeping toast messages visible indefinitely
Fix modal-body parameters in ezq.js for ezAlert and ezQuery and fix the progress bar for certain cases in ezProgressBar
Use authed() function to check if user is authed in base.html. This fixes an issue where a page could look as if the user was logged in.

Miscellaneous

Fix behavior for REVERSE_PROXY config setting when set to a boolean instead of a string
Improve Dockerfile to run fewer commands and re-use the build cache
Add make coverage to generate an HTML coverage report
Update coverage and pytest-cov development dependencies

2.3.1 / 2020-02-17

General

User confirmation emails now have the correct URL format

2.3.0 / 2020-02-17

General

During setup, admins can register their email address with the CTFd LLC newsletter for news and updates
Fix editting hints from the admin panel
Allow admins to insert HTML code directly into the header and footer (end of body tag) of pages. This replaces and supercedes the custom CSS feature.
- The views.custom_css route has been removed.
Admins can now customize the content of outgoing emails and inject certain variables into email content.
The manage.py script can now manipulate the CTFd Configs table via the get_config and set_config commands. (e.g. python manage.py get_config ctf_theme and python manage.py set_config ctf_theme core)

Themes

Themes should now reference the theme_header and theme_footer configs instead of the views.custom_css endpoint to allow for user customizations. See the base.html file of the core theme.

Plugins

Make ezq functions available to CTFd.js under CTFd.ui.ezq

Miscellaneous

Python imports sorted with isort and import order enforced
Black formatter running on a majority of Python code

2.2.3 / 2020-01-21

This release includes a critical security fix for CTFd versions >= 2.0.0

All CTFd administrators are recommended to take the following steps:

Upgrade their installations to the latest version
Rotate the SECRET_KEY value
Reset the passwords for all administrator users

Security

This release includes a fix for a vulnerability allowing an arbitrary user to take over other accounts given their username and a CTFd instance with emails enabled

General

Users will receive an email notification when their passwords are reset
Fixed an error when users provided incorrect team join information

2.2.2 / 2020-01-09

General

Add jQuery, Moment, nunjucks, and Howl to window globals to make it easier for plugins to access JS modules
Fix issue with timezone loading in config page which was preventing display of CTF times

2.2.1 / 2020-01-04

General

Fix issue preventing admins from creating users or teams
Fix issue importing backups that contained empty directories

2.2.0 / 2019-12-22

Notice

2.2.0 focuses on updating the front end of CTFd to use more modern programming practices and changes some aspects of core CTFd design. If your current installation is using a custom theme or custom plugin with any kind of JavaScript, it is likely that you will need to upgrade that theme/plugin to be useable with v2.2.0.

General

Team size limits can now be enforced from the configuration panel
Access tokens functionality for API usage
Admins can now choose how to deliver their notifications
- Toast (new default)
- Alert
- Background
- Sound On / Sound Off
There is now a notification counter showing how many unread notifications were received
Setup has been redesigned to have multiple steps
- Added Description
- Added Start time and End time,
- Added MajorLeagueCyber integration
- Added Theme and color selection
Fixes issue where updating dynamic challenges could change the value to an incorrect value
Properly use a less restrictive regex to validate email addresses
Bump Python dependencies to latest working versions
Admins can now give awards to team members from the team's admin panel page

API

Team member removals (DELETE /api/v1/teams/[team_id]/members) from the admin panel will now delete the removed members's Submissions, Awards, Unlocks

Admin Panel

Admins can now user a color input box to specify a theme color which is injected as part of the CSS configuration. Theme developers can use this CSS value to change colors and styles accordingly.
Challenge updates will now alert you if the challenge doesn't have a flag
Challenge entry now allows you to upload files and enter simple flags from the initial challenge creation page

Themes

Significant JavaScript and CSS rewrite to use ES6, Webpack, yarn, and babel
Theme asset specially generated URLs
- Static theme assets are now loaded with either .dev.extension or .min.extension depending on production or development (i.e. debug server)
- Static theme assets are also given a d GET parameter that changes per server start. Used to bust browser caches.
Use defer for script tags to not block page rendering
Only show the MajorLeagueCyber button if configured in configuration
The admin panel now links to https://help.ctfd.io/ in the top right
Create an ezToast() function to use Bootstrap's toasts
The user-facing navbar now features icons
Awards shown on a user's profile can now have award icons
The default MarkdownIt render created by CTFd will now open links in new tabs
Country flags can now be shown on the user pages

Deployment

Switch Dockerfile from python:2.7-alpine to python:3.7-alpine
Add SERVER_SENT_EVENTS config value to control whether Notifications are enabled
Challenge ID is now recorded in the submission log

Plugins

Add an endpoint parameter to register_plugin_assets_directory() and register_plugin_asset() to control what endpoint Flask uses for the added route

Miscellaneous

CTFd.utils.email.sendmail() now allows the caller to specify subject as an argument
- The subject allows for injecting custom variable via the new CTFd.utils.formatters.safe_format() function
Admin user information is now error checked during setup
Added yarn to the toolchain and the yarn dev, yarn build, yarn verify, and yarn clean scripts
Prevent old CTFd imports from being imported

2.1.5 / 2019-10-2

General

Fixes flask run debug server by not monkey patching in wsgi.py
Fix CSV exports in Python 3 by converting StringIO to BytesIO
Avoid exception on sessions without a valid user and force logout
Fix several issues in Vagrant provisioning

API

Prevent users from nulling out profile values and breaking certain pages

2.1.4 / 2019-08-31

General

Make user pages show the team's score and place information instead of the user's information if in team mode
Allow admins to search users by IP address
Require password for email address changes in the user profile
The place indicator in Teams Mode on the team pages and user pages now correctly excludes hidden teams
Fix scoreboard place ordinalization in Python 3
Fix for a crash where imports will fail on SQLite due to lack of ALTER command support
Fix for an issue where files downloaded via S3 would have the folder name in the filename
Make Users.get_place() and Teams.get_place() for return None instead of 0 if the account has no rank/place
Properly redirect users or 403 if the endpoint requires a team but the user isn't in one
Show affiliation in user and team pages in the admin panel and public and private user and team pages

Themes

Remove invalid id='submit' on submit buttons in various theme files
Set tabindex to 0 since we don't really care for forcing tab order
Rename statistics.js to graphs.js in the Admin Panel as it was identified that adblockers can sometimes block the file

API

The team profile endpoint (/api/v1/teams/me) will now return 403 instead of 400 if the requesting user is not the captain
The Challenge API will now properly freeze the solve count to freeze time

2.1.3 / 2019-06-22

General

Fix issue with downloading files after CTF end when view_after_ctf is enabled
Sort solves in admin challenge view by date
Link to appropriate user and challenge in team, user, and challenge pages
Redirect to /team instead of /challenges after a user registers in team mode
Fixes bug where pages marked as hidden weren't loading
Remove data-href from pages.html in the Admin Panel to fix the delete button
Add UI to handle team member removal in Admin Panel
Fixes account links on the scoreboard page created by update(). They now correctly point to the user instead of undefined when in user mode.
utils._get_config will now return KeyError instead of None to avoid cache misses

Deployment

Use /dev/shm for --worker-tmp-dir in gunicorn in Docker
Cache get_place code for users and teams.
Install Flask-DebugToolbar in development
Cache the /scoreboard page to avoid having to rebuild the response so often
Make unprivileged ctfd user usable for mysql connection in docker-compose by having the db image create the database instead of CTFd
Fix bug causing apache2 + mod_wsgi deployments to break

API

Change /api/v1/teams/[team_id]/members from taking id to user_id.
- Endpoint was unused so the API change is considered non-breaking.
Add account_type and account_url field in /api/v1/scoreboard
Separate /api/v1/[users,teams]/[me,id]/[solves,fails,awards] into seperate API endpoints
Clear standings cache after award creation/deletion

Exports

Temporarily disable foreign keys in MySQL, MariaDB, and Postgres during import_ctf()
Add cache_timeout parameter to send_fileresponse in /admin/export to prevent the browser from caching the export

Tests

Fix score changing test helpers to clear standings cache when generating a score changing row

2.1.2 / 2019-05-13

General

Fix freeze time regressions in 2.x
- Make /api/v1/[users,teams]/[me]/[solves,fails,awards] endpoints load as admin so users can see their solves after freeze
- Make /api/v1/challenges/[id]/solves only show solves before freeze time
  - Add the ?preview=true GET parameter for admins to preview challenges solves as a user
Team join attempts are now ratelimited

Tests

More linting and autoformatting rules
- Format Javascript and CSS files with prettier: prettier --write 'CTFd/themes/**/*'
- Format Python with black: black CTFd and black tests
- make lint and thus Travis now include the above commands as lint checks
Travis now uses xenial instead of trusty.

2.1.1 / 2019-05-04

General

Allow admins to hit /api/v1/challenges and /api/v1/challenges/[id] without having a team to fix challenge previews
Fix rate-limiting of flag submission when using team mode
Fixes some modal close buttons not working in the admin panel
Fixes populate.py to assign captains to teams.

Models

Added Challenges.flags relationship and moved the Flags.challenge relationship to a backref on Challenges
Added ondelete='CASCADE' to most ForeignKeys in models allowing for deletions to remove associated data
- Hints should be deleted when their Challenge is deleted
- Tags should be deleted when their Challenge is deleted
- Flags should be deleted when their Challenge is deleted
- ChallengeFiles should be deleted when their Challenge is deleted
  - Deletion of the file itself is not handled by the model/database
- Awards should be deleted when their user or team is deleted
- Unlocks should be deleted when their user or team is deleted
- Tracking should be deleted when their user or team is deleted
- Teams.captain_id should be set to NULL when the captain user is deleted

Exports

Force db.create_all() to happen for imports on sqlite or on failure to create missing tables
Force ctf_theme to be set to core in imports in case a theme is missing from the import or the instance
Fix imports/exports to emit and accept JSON properly under MariaDB
- MariaDB does not properly understand JSON so it must accept strings instead of dicts
- MariaDB outputs strings instead of JSON for its JSON type so the export serializer will attempt to cast output JSON strings to JSON objects

Deployment

Run as root when using docker-compose
- This is necessary to be able to write to the volumes mounted from the host

2.1.0 / 2019-04-24

General

Remove Flask-SocketIO in favor of custom Server Side Events code
- Removed the Flask-SocketIO dependency and removed all related code. See Deployment section.
- Added EventSource polyfill from Yaffle/EventSource
- Events are now rate-limited and only availble to authenticated users
  - This means real time notifications will only appear to authenticated users
- Browser localStorage is now used to dictate which tab will maintain the persistent connection to the /events endpoint
  - Thanks to https://gist.github.com/neilj/4146038
- Notifications (currently the only use of the events code) now appear with a notification sound
  - Thanks to Terrence Martin for the sound
Added UI to delete and download files from the media library
Progress bars have been added to some actions which could take time
- To file uploads on challenge page
- To file uploads on the page editor page
- To the import CTF functionality
Challenge file downloads now require a token to download
- /files/<path> now accepts a ?token= parameter which is a serialized version of {user_id: <>, team_id: <>, file_id: <>}
- If any of these sections are invalid or the user/team is banned the download is blocked
- This allows files to be downloaded via curl or wget (i.e. without cookie authentication)
Added a team captain concept. Team captains can edit team information such as name, team password, website, etc.
- Only captains can change their team's captain
- Captains are the first to join the team. But they can be transferred to the true captain later on
Cache /api/v1/scoreboard and /api/v1/scoreboard/top/[count]
- Adds cache.make_cache_key because Flask-Caching is unable to cleanly determine the endpoint for Flask-Restplus
- This helper may change in a future release or be deprecated by an improvement in Flask-Caching
Properly load hidden and banned properties in the admin team edit modal
Adds a hover color change on table rows in the admin panel.
- If a table row specifies the data-href attribute it will become clickable
Add a simple Makefile to wrap some basic commands
- make lint: lint the code base
- make test: test the code base
- make serve: create a debug application server
- make shell: create a Python shell with the application preloaded
Started work on a Sphinx documentation site available at https://docs.ctfd.io

Dependencies

Upgraded SQLAlchemy to 1.3.3 for proper JSON columns in SQLite
Pin Werkzeug==0.15.2 in requirements.txt
Flask-Profiler added to serve.py --profile

Models

Awards table now has a type column which is used as a polymorphic identity
Add Teams.captain_id column to Teams table

API

Added /api/v1/teams/[team_id]/members
Cache /api/v1/scoreboard and /api/v1/scoreboard/top/[count]
- Adds cache.make_cache_key because Flask-Caching is unable to cleanly determine the endpoint for Flask-Restplus
- This helper may change in a future release or be deprecated by an improvement in Flask-Caching
Add /api/v1/users?notify=true to email user & password after creating new account
Fix issue where admins could not modify their own profile or their own team

Plugins

CTFd.utils.security.passwords deprecated and now available at CTFd.utils.crypto
Built-in challenge plugins now linkify challenge text properly
Challenge type plugins do not have to append script_root to file downloads anymore as that will now be managed by the API
Awards are now polymorphic and subtables can be created for them

Themes

Fix spelling mistake in 500.html
Removed socket.io.min.js from base.html
Added EventSource polyfill from Yaffle/EventSource
Added howler.js to play notification sounds
Vendored/duplicated files which were shared between the admin and core themes have been de-duped
- The files used in the core theme should now be considered free to use by other themes
CTF start and end times are now injected into base.html and available in the CTFd.js object
Register page now properly says "User Name" instead of "Team Name" since only users can see the Register page
Users and Teams pages now use a public and private page.
- user.html -> users/public.html and users/private.html
- team.html -> teams/public.html and teams/private.html
Separate admin/templates/modals/users/create.html into admin/templates/modals/users/edit.html

Exports

Exports will now properly export JSON for all JSON columns
- In some configurations the column would be exported as a string.
- Legacy string columns will still be imported properly.
Exports from old 2.x CTFd versions should upgrade and be installed properly
- Any failure to do so should be considered a bug

Deployment

User is no longer root in Docker image
- Errors in writing log files will now fail silently as we expect a future rewrite
- Logs will now also go to stdout
Update Dockerfile to create and chown/chmod the folders used by docker-compose to store files/logs (/var/log/CTFd, /var/uploads)
- This allows the container to write to the folder despite it being a volume mounted from the host
Default worker changed back to gevent
Removed Flask-SocketIO dependency
- Removed the SOCKETIO_ASYNC_MODE config
gevent is now required to allow the Server Sent Events client polling code to work
- If you use the provided wsgi.py or gevent gunicorn workers, there shouldn't be any issues
Cache /api/v1/scoreboard and /api/v1/scoreboard/top/[count] which is invalidated on new solves or every minute

Configuration

Added SWAGGER_UI setting to config.py to control the existence of the /api/v1/ Swagger UI documentation
Removed the SOCKETIO_ASYNC_MODE config
Renamed docstring that referenced SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI to DATABASE_URL
The REVERSE_PROXY configuration can be set to True or to a comma seperated string of integers (e.g. 1,1,1,1,1)
- See https://werkzeug.palletsprojects.com/en/0.15.x/middleware/proxy_fix/#werkzeug.middleware.proxy_fix.ProxyFix
- For example to configure x_for=1, x_proto=1, x_host=1, x_port=1, x_prefix=1 specify 1,1,1,1,1

Tests

Tests are now executed in parallel
- When using a non-memory database, test helpers will now randomize the database name to be able to parallelize execution
Test tool switched from nosetests to pytest
Lint tool switched from pycodestyle to flake8
Basic security checking added using bandit
Allow create_ctfd() test helper to take app configuration as an argument

2.0.6 / 2019-04-08

Security

Fixes an issue where user email addresses could be disclosed to non-admins

General

Users/Teams set to hidden or banned are no longer visible by other users
- This affects the API and the main user interface. This does not affect admins
Users without a Team can no longer view challenges when the CTF is in Team Mode

2.0.5 / 2019-03-23

Security

Fixes an issue where user email addresses could be disclosed to non-admins

General

Dockerfile now installs linux-headers package from apk
Hidden teams are no longer visible publicly
Fixes an issue where long content made it it difficult/impossible to edit flags and hints
Fix for users not being able to edit portions of their own profile
Fix for solves not being frozen for teams.
Reimplement direct user email sending from the admin panel
Fixes an issue where confirmation logs would report None instead of the user if the browser was unauthenticated
Fixes an issue where SMTP server configuration (MAIL_SERVER, MAIL_PORT) were not being read from config.py
Fixes for a user's place on their profile showing a different place than the scoreboard
Fixes for an issue where dynamic challenge values would appear to change after being solved by a hidden user

Exports

Exports are now saved on disk with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() instead of memory during creation
After importing an export, CTFd will now recreate all tables it expects to be available. This resolves an issue where tables created by plugins would be missing after an import.

2.0.4 / 2019-01-30

General

Block user & team name changes if name changes are disabled (Closes #835)
Set accounts to unconfirmed if email is changed while verify_emails is enabled
Only allow users to change their email to emails with domains in the whitelist.
Add email.check_email_is_whitelisted() to verify that a user's email is whitelisted.
Create a get_config wrapper around the internal _get_config to let us set a default config value (Closes #659)
Remove utils.get_app_config() from memoization and also give it a default parameter
Move utils.logging.init_logs() into utils.initialization and properly call init_logs() to save logs to the logs folder
Block the creation of users/teams from MLC if registration_visibility is private
Fix showing incorrect 'CTF has ended' error if view_after_ctf is set.
Fix creating users from the admin panel while name changes are disabled.

API

/api/v1/teams/<team_id> now coerced to an int (i.e. /api/v1/teams/<int:team_id>)

Deployment

Re-add the LOG_FOLDER envvar to docker-compose so we don't try to write to the read-only host
Stop gunicorn from logging to LOG_FOLDER in docker without explicit opt-in
Add ACCESS_LOG and ERROR_LOG envvars to docker to specify where gunicorn will log to
Allow DATABASE_URL to contain custom MySQL ports for docker-entrypoint.sh
Drop WORKERS count to 1 to avoid dealing with Flask-SocketIO sticky sessions'
Install gevent-websocket and use it by default until we have a better solution
NOTE: In future releases, websockets functionality will likely be removed. (#852)

2.0.3 / 2019-01-12

Security Release

This release resolves a security issue that allowed malicious users to hijack admin browser sessions in certain browsers under certain configurations.

The implemented fix is to require the new CSRF-Token header on state-changing requests with a Content-Type of application/json. The same nonce used for standard POST requests is re-used for the CSRF-Token header.

Because of the necessary changes to the API, the previously used call to fetch() in themes should now be replaced with CTFd.fetch().

Security

Require CSRF-Token header on all API requests.
Require CSRF protection on all HTTP methods except GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, and TRACE.
Default session cookie to SameSite=Lax
Send initial user information request to MajorLeagueCyber over HTTPS

General

Fix update_check() logic so that we don't accidentally remove the update notification.

Themes

Remove explicit usage of script_root in public JS.
- In custom themes, use the CTFd.fetch() function (defined in CTFd.js) and properly register the url root and CSRF nonce in base.html as shown below:
```
var script_root = "{{ request.script_root }}";
var csrf_nonce = "{{ nonce }}";
CTFd.options.urlRoot = script_root;
CTFd.options.csrfNonce = csrf_nonce;
```
Reduce required amount of parameters required for static theme files.
- i.e. url_for('views.themes') no longer requires the themes parameter. It now defaults to the currently in-use theme.

2.0.2 / 2019-01-03

General

Fix regression where public challenges could not be attempted by unauthed users.
Admin Config Panel UI no longer allows changing of user mode.
Show notification titles and allow for deleting notifications
- Update notification UI in admin panel to be similar to the public-facing UI
Fix subdirectory deployments in a generic manner by modifying request.path to combine both request.script_root and request.path.
- Also create a request preprocessor to redirect users into the true CTFd app when deploying on a subdirectory.
- Redirect to request.full_path instead of just request.path.
Fix TestingConfig.SAFE_MODE not being reset between tests.
Disable value input in dynamic challenge update field since we calculate it on the user's behalf.
Fix displaying incorrect account link in the solves tab of a challenge modal.
Pin normality version because of an upstream issue in dataset.
Fix 500's when users submit non-integer values to ?page=1

API

Add /api/v1/notifications/<id> to allow accessing notifactions by ID.
- This is currently public but will become permission based later in the future
Add account_url field to the response of /api/v1/<challenge_id>/solves so the client knows where an account is located.

Plugins

Add new plugin utilities to register javascript and css files for the admin panel.
- Also fixed issue where those scripts and files were shared between generated applications

2.0.1 / 2018-12-09

2.0.1 is a patch release to fix regressions and bugs in 2.0.0.

If you are upgrading from a version prior to 2.0.0 please read the 2.0.0 change notes for instructions on updating to 2.0.0 before updating to 2.0.1.

General

Fix setting auth for get_smtp().
- Add MAIL_USEAUTH to config.py.
Add more mail documentation to config.py.
Disable jinja cache properly by setting cache_size to 0 (#662) Regression from 1.2.0.
Fix downloading files as an anonymous user.
Fix viewing challenges anonymously if they have empty requirements. Closes #789
- Allow anonymous users to see see challenges with empty requirements or anonymized challenges
Clean up admin mail settings to use new label/small structure
Fix email confirmations and improve test.
Fix password resets from double hashing passwords

Themes

Change confirm.html to use the variable user instead of team

API

Grant admin write access to verified field in UserSchema.
Fix setting mail_username, mail_password
Prevent overriding smtp attributes on config update
Fix hint loading for admins by adding /api/v1/hints/<id>?preview=true for use by admins
Fixing a bug where prerequisites could not be set for dynamic challenges due to a division by zero error where defaults were being set unnecessarily.

Exports

Fix syncing down an empty S3 bucket
Fix S3Uploader in Python 3 and fix test
Fix S3 sync function to only pull down files instead of trying to pull directories

2.0.0 / 2018-12-02

2.0.0 is a significant, backwards-incompaitble release.

Many unofficial plugins will not be supported in CTFd 2.0.0. If you're having trouble updating your plugins please join the CTFd Slack for help and discussion.

If you are upgrading from a prior version be sure to make backups and have a reversion plan before upgrading.

If upgrading from 1.2.0 please make use of the migrations/1_2_0_upgrade_2_0_0.py script as follows:
1. Make all necessary backups. Backup the database, uploads folder, and source code directory.
2. Upgrade the source code directory (i.e. git pull) but do not run any updated code yet.
3. Set the DATABASE_URL in CTFd/config.py to point to your existing CTFd database.
4. Run the upgrade script from the CTFd root folder i.e. python migrations/1_2_0_upgrade_2_0_0.py.
  - This migration script will attempt to migrate data inside the database to 2.0.0 but it cannot account for every situation.
  - Examples of situations where you may need to manually migrate data:
    - Tables/columns created by plugins
    - Tables/columns created by forks
    - Using databases which are not officially supported (e.g. sqlite, postgres)
5. Setup the rest of CTFd (i.e. config.py), migrate/update any plugins, and run normally.
If upgrading from a version before 1.2.0, please upgrade to 1.2.0 and then continue with the steps above.

General

Seperation of Teams into Users and Teams.
- Use User Mode if you want users to register as themselves and play on their own.
- Use Team Mode if you want users to create and join teams to play together.
Integration with MajorLeagueCyber (MLC). (https://majorleaguecyber.org)
- Organizers can register their event with MLC and will receive OAuth Client ID & Client Secret.
- Organizers can set those OAuth credentials in CTFd to allow users and teams to automatically register in a CTF.
Data is now provided to the front-end via the REST API. (#551)
- Javascript uses fetch() to consume the REST API.
Dynamic Challenges are built in.
S3 backed uploading/downloading built in. (#661)
Real time notifications/announcements. (#600)
- Uses long-polling instead of websockets to simplify deployment.
Email address domain whitelisting. (#603)
Database exporting to CSV. (#656)
Imports/Exports rewritten to act as backups.
- Importing no longer stacks values.
- Exports are no longer partial.
Reset CTF from config panel (Remove all users, solves, fails. i.e. only keep Challenge data.) (#639)
Countries are pre-determined and selectable instead of being user-entered.
- Countries stored based on country code.
- Based on https://github.com/umpirsky/country-list/blob/master/data/en_US/country.csv.
Sessions are no longer stored using secure cookies. (#658)
- Sessions are now stored server side in a cache (filesystem or redis) allowing for session revocation.
- In order to delete the cache during local development you can delete CTfd/.data/filesystem_cache.
Challenges can now have requirements which must be met before the challenge can be seen/solved.
Workshop mode, score hiding, registration hiding, challenge hiding have been changed to visibility settings.
Users and Teams can now be banned preventing access to the CTF.
Dockerfile improvements.
- WORKERS count in docker-entrypoint.sh defaults to 1. (#716)
- docker-entrypoint.sh exits on any error. (#717)
Increased test coverage.
Create SAFE_MODE configuration to disable loading of plugins.
Migrations have been reset.

Themes

Data is now provided to the front-end via the REST API.
- Javascript uses fetch() to consume the REST API.
The admin theme is no longer considered seperated from the core theme and should always be together.
Themes now use url_for() to generate URLs instead of hardcoding.
socket.io (via long-polling) is used to connect to CTFd to receive notifications.
ctf_name() renamed to get_ctf_name() in themes.
ctf_logo() renamed to get_ctf_logo() in themes.
ctf_theme() renamed to get_ctf_theme() in themes.
Update Font-Awesome to 5.4.1.
Update moment.js to 2.22.2. (#704)
Workshop mode, score hiding, registration hiding, challenge hiding have been changed to visibility functions.
- accounts_visible(), challenges_visible(), registration_visible(), scores_visible()

Plugins

Plugins are loaded in sorted() order
Rename challenge type plugins to use .html and have simplified names. (create, update, view)
Many functions have moved around because utils.py has been broken up and refactored. (#475)
Marshmallow (https://marshmallow.readthedocs.io) is now used by the REST API to validate and serialize/deserialize API data.
- Marshmallow schemas and views are used to restrict SQLAlchemy columns to user roles.
The REST API features swagger support but this requires more utilization internally.
Errors can now be provided between routes and decoraters through message flashing. (CTFd.utils.helpers; get_errors, get_infos, info_for, error_for)
Email registration regex relaxed. (#693)
Many functions have moved and now have dedicated utils packages for their category.
Create SAFE_MODE configuration to disable loading of plugins.

1.2.0 / 2018-05-04

General

Updated to Flask 1.0 & switched documentation to suggest using flask run instead of python serve.py.
Added the ability to make static & regex flags case insensitive.
The /chals endpoint no longer lists the details of challenges.
- The /chals/:id endpoint is now used to load challenge information before display.
Admins can now see what users have solved a given challenge from the admin panel.
Fixed issue with imports extracting files outside of the CTFd directory.
Added import zipfile validation and optional size restriction.
The ctftime, authentication, and admin restrictions have been converted to decorators to improve code reuse.
- 403 is now a more common status code. Previously it only indicated CSRF failure, now it can indicate login failure or other Forbidden access situations.
Challenge previews now work consistently instead of occasionally failing to show.
Tests are now randomly ordered with nose-randomly.

Themes

Admins now have the ability to upload a CTF logo from the config panel.
Switched from the marked library to Markdown-It for client side markdown rendering.
- This will break Challenge type plugins that override the markdown renderer since we are no longer using the marked renderers.
Introduced the ezpg() JS function to make it easier to draw a progressbar modal.
Introduced the $.patch() AJAX wrapper.
Team names are truncated properly to 50 characters in teams.html.
The admin panel now uses Bootstrap badges instead of buttons to indicate properties such as admin, verified, visible.

Plugins

Challenge type plugins now use a global challenge object with exposed functions to specify how to display a challenge. (preRender(), render(), postRender(), submit()).
- Challenge type plugins also have access to window.challenge.data which allow for the previously mentioned functions to process challenge data and change logic accordingly.
Challenge type plugins now get full control over how a challenge is displayed via the nunjucks files.
Challenge plugins should now pass the entire flag/key object to a Custom flag type.
- This allows the flag type to make use of the data column to decide how to operate on the flag. This is used to implement case insensitive flags.
Challenge modals (modal.njk) now use {{ description }} instead of {{ desc }} properly aligning with the database schema.
The update and create modals now inject data into the modal via nunjucks instead of client side Javascript.
The utils.base64decode() & utils.base64encode() functions no longer expose url encoding/decoding parameters.

1.1.4 / 2018-04-05

General

[SECURITY] Fixed XSS in team website. (#604)
Fixed deleting challenges that have a hint associated. (#601)

Themes

Removed "SVG with JavaScript" in favor of "Web Fonts with CSS". (#604)

1.1.3 / 2018-03-26

General

[SECURITY] Fixed XSS in team name field on team deletion. (#592)
Fixed an issue where MariaDB defaults in Docker Compose caused difficult to debug 500 errors. (#566)
Improved Docker usage:
- Redis cache
- Configurable amount of workers
- Easier to access logs
- Plugin requirements are installed on image build.
- Switched from the default gunicorn synchronous worker to gevent
Fixed an issue where ties would be broken incorrectly if there are challenges that are worth 0 points. (#577)
Fixed update checks not happening on CTFd start. (#595)
Removed the static_html handler to access raw HTML files. (#561)
- Pages is now the only supported means of accessing/creating a page.
Removed uwsgi specific configuration files.
Fixed issue with Docker image having a hard coded database host name. (#587)

Themes

Fixed scrollbar showing on pages that are smaller than the screen size (#589)
Fixed displaying the team rank while in workshop mode. (#590)
Fixed flag modal not clearing when creating multiple new flags. (#594)

Plugins

Add a utility decorator to allow routes to forego CSRF protection. (#596)

1.1.2 / 2018-01-23

General

Fixed page links on subdirectory deployments
Fixed challenge updating on subdirectory deployments
Fixed broken icon buttons on Safari

Themes

Upgraded to Bootstrap 4.0.0
Upgraded to jQuery 3.3.1
Upgraded to FontAwesome 5.0.4

1.1.1 / 2018-01-08

General

Fixed regression where users could not be promoted to admins or verified.
Fixed two icons in the Media Library which were not updated to Font Awesome 5.
Challenge previews now include tags, hints, and files.
Fixed an issue where a page could not be published immediately after being saved.

Themes

Upgraded to Bootstrap 4 Beta v3. No major changes needed by themes.
Fixed issue where the frozen message was not centered in the team page.
The JavaScript update() function now has a callback instead of being hardcoded.
chalboard.js now passes script_root into the Nunjucks templates so that file downloads work properly under subdirectories.

1.1.0 / 2017-12-22

Themes

The original theme has been replaced by the core theme. The core theme is written in Bootstrap v4.0.0-beta.2 and significantly reduces the amount of custom styles/classes used.
Challenges can now be previewed from the admin panel.
The modals to modify files, flags, tags, and hints are no longer controlled by Challenge Type Plugins and are defined in CTFd itself.
The admin graphs and admin statistics pages have been combined.
Percentage solved for challenges has been moved to the new statistics page.
The scoregraph on the scoreboard has been cleaned up to better fit the page width.
Score graphs now use user-specific colors.
Hints can now be previewed from the admin panel.
Various confirmation modals have been replaced with ezq.js, a simple Bootstrap modal wrapper.
Fixed a bug where challenge buttons on the challenge board would load before being styled as solved.
FontAwesome has been upgraded to FontAwesome 5.
Themes are now rendered using the Jinja2 SandboxedEnvironment.

Database

Keys.key_type has been renamed to Keys.type.
Pages Improvements:
- Page previews are now independent of the editor page.
- Pages now have a title which refer to the link's name on the navbar.
- Pages can now be drafts which cannot be seen by regular users.
- Pages can now require authentication to view.
- CSS editing has been moved to the config panel.

Challenge Type Plugins

Handlebars has been replaced with Nunjucks which means Challenge Type Plugins using Handlebars must be updated to work with 1.1.0

General

CTFs can now be paused to prevent solves.
A new authed_only decorator is available to restrict pages to logged-in users.
CTFd will now check for updates against versioning.ctfd.io. Admins will see in the admin panel that CTFd can be updated.
A ratelimit function has been implemented. Authentication and email related functions are now ratelimited.
Code coverage from codecov.
Admins can now see the reason why an email to a team failed to send.
SMTP email connections take priority over mailgun settings now. The opposite used to be true.
The JavaScript submitkey() function now takes an optional callback.
utils.get_config() no longer looks at app.config values. Instead use utils.get_app_config().
Only prompt about upgrades when running with a TTY.

1.0.5 / 2017-10-25

Challenge Type Plugins now have a static interface which should be implemented by all challenge types.
- Challenge Type Plugins are now self-contained in the plugin system meaning you no longer need to manipulate themes in order to register Challenge Type Plugins.
- Challenge Type plugins should implement the create, read, update, delete, attempt, solve, and fail static methods.
- Challenge Type plugins now use strings for both their IDs and names.
- Challenge Type plugins now contain references to their related modal template files.
Plugins can now register directories and files to be served by CTFd
- CTFd.plugins.register_plugin_assets_directory registers a directory to be served
- CTFd.plugins.register_plugin_asset registers a file to be served
Plugins can now add to the admin and user menu/nav bars
- Plugins can now add to the admin menu bar with CTFd.plugins. register_admin_plugin_menu_bar
- Plugins can now add to the user menu bar with CTFd.plugins. register_user_page_menu_bar
Plugins should now use config.json to define plugin attributes in lieu of config.html. Backwards compatibility has been maintained. With config.json, plugins can now control where the user is linked to instead of being directed to config.html.
The challenge type and key type columns are now strings.
Some utils functions now have CTFd.plugins wrappers.
There is now a /team endpoint which takes the user to their own public profile.
Mail server username and passwords are no longer rendered in the Admin Config panel.
Users can now see their own user graphs when scores are hidden.
prepare.sh is now marked executable.
Spinners are now properly removed if there is no data to display.

Always backup your database before upgrading!

1.0.4 / 2017-09-09

Add spinners to the original theme for loading graphs
Plugins can register global JS files with utils.register_plugin_script()
Plugins can register global CSS files with utils.register_plugin_stylesheet()
Challenge type plugins can now control the response to a user's input
Vagrantfile!
Containers functionality has been moved into a plugin
Hide solves from the JSON endpoint when hiding scores.
The utils.get_config() function now checks for lower case and upper case values specified in config.py
Pages are now cached so that we don't hit the database every time we need to load a page.
The /top/10 endpoint has been changed to group users by ID instead of by name.
Admins are allowed to see and solve challenges before a CTF starts.
The CTF time configuration UI has been fixed to allow for the removal of times.
The score graph in the original theme is now sorted by score.
Bug fixes
- Use strings to store IP addresses.
- Take into account awards when we calculate a user's place.
- Plugin configuration clears the cache.
- More logging inside of auth.py.
- Username and password in the SMTP mail configuration are now optional.
- Markdown in challenges has been fixed to it's pre-regression state and is easier to write.
- Improvements to Python 3 compatability.
- Variety of new tests to further test behavior.
- Fixed an old bug where users would incorrectly see a challenge with 0 solves.

1.0.3 / 2017-07-01

Increased Unicode support. Smileys everywhere 👌
- MySQL charset defaults to utf8mb4
Pages feature now supports Markdown and the Pages editor has a preview button
IPv6 support for users' IP addresses
Theme switching no longer requires a server restart
Admins can now search for teams in the admin panel
The config.html page for plugins are now Jinja templates giving them much more functionality
Hints are automatically unlocked once the CTF is finished
Themes now have a dedicated themes folder
Graphs are now transparent so that themes can style the background
Tags are now inserted into the classes of challenge buttons on the default theme
There is now an override_template() function allowing plugins to replace the content of any template loaded by CTFd
Changes to the email confirmation flow and making confirmation email resending user controlled.

1.0.2 / 2017-04-29

Challenges can now have max attempts set on a per challenge level
Setup now automatically logs you in as an admin. Don't leave your CTFs unconfigured!
Tests are now executed by TravisCI! Help out by adding tests for functionality!
CTFd now has it's own Github organization!
From a plugin you can replace most of the utils functions used by CTFd. This allows plugins to replace even more functionality within CTFd
CTFd now has a concept of Hints!
You can now customize the challenge editting modals in the admin panel
There are now links to social media pages where you can follow CTFd to track updates.
CTFd now has the ability to export and import data. This lets you save your CTFs as zip files and redeploy them again and again.

1.0.1 / 2017-03-08

Challenge types
- This means CTFd now supports multiple kinds of challenges.
- Challenges are now modifiable with a plugin.
Solve types
- This means CTFd now supports multiple kinds of flags/keys.
- The flag/key logic is now modifiable with a plugin.
Plugins are now allowed a configuration page
The formerly massive admin.py is separated out into easier to work on chunks
Improved Dockerfile and associated docker-compose file
Fixes Python 3 compatibility
Fixes a variety of glitches reported by users
Always backup database before upgrading!

1.0.0 / 2017-01-24

Implemented enhancements:

1.0.0 release! Things work!
Manage everything from a browser
Run Containers
Themes
Plugins
Database migrations

Closed issues:

Closed out 94 issues before tagging 1.0.0

Merged pull requests:

Merged 42 pull requests before tagging 1.0.0

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