This work is focused on penetration testing of web applications. The theoretical part describes this issue and methodology. The work includes security organization "The Open Web Application Security Project" (OWASP), document OWASP Top 10 and the first 5 vulnerabilities of this document. The last part introduces linux distribution Kali Linux and the several most used penetration tools. The practical part consists of testing the first five vulnerabilities in the document OWASP Top 10 2013. It contains a description of the used SW for the realization of the attacks, virtual infrastructure and test of each vulnerabilities. From the practical part is created laboratory task "Penetration testing of web applications" and additional introductory t...