In today’s evolving threat landscape, the OWASP Top 10 list is essential reading for every web developer and security practitioner. Here’s a breakdown of the ten most critical web application security risks, along with their descriptions, mitigations, and reference links.
Description: Users can access unauthorized resources—such as other users’ profiles, admin functions, or sensitive data.
Deny by default, enforce rules at server level.
Description: Sensitive data like passwords or credit cards are exposed due to weak or absent encryption.
Don’t roll your own crypto. Ever.
Description: Unsanitized user input is used in queries—SQL, OS commands, or others—allowing code execution.
Sanitize input and use prepared statements.
Description: Security issues that stem from flawed design choices—not just code bugs.
If it’s insecure by design, code fixes won’t save you.
Description: Misconfigured headers, verbose error messages, or exposed services give attackers a head start.
What’s exposed in staging stays exposed in production—unless fixed.
Description: Old dependencies may contain known vulnerabilities ready for exploitation.
Outdated = unsafe. Always monitor your stack.
Description: Broken authentication lets attackers impersonate users and hijack sessions.
Protect the keys to your kingdom.
Description: Relying on unsigned or untrusted software can lead to compromised updates or plugins.
Trust, but verify. Especially your software supply chain.
Description: Without logs or alerts, attacks go undetected—costing time and damage control later.
You can’t protect what you can’t see.
Description: The server makes backend requests on behalf of the attacker—often into internal networks.
Don’t let your server become the attacker’s puppet.
In today’s evolving threat landscape, the OWASP Top 10 list is essential reading for every web developer and security practitioner. Here’s a breakdown of the ten most critical web application security risks, along with their descriptions, mitigations, and reference links.
Description: Users can access unauthorized resources—such as other users’ profiles, admin functions, or sensitive data.
Deny by default, enforce rules at server level.
Description: Sensitive data like passwords or credit cards are exposed due to weak or absent encryption.
Don’t roll your own crypto. Ever.
Description: Unsanitized user input is used in queries—SQL, OS commands, or others—allowing code execution.
Sanitize input and use prepared statements.
Description: Security issues that stem from flawed design choices—not just code bugs.
If it’s insecure by design, code fixes won’t save you.
Description: Misconfigured headers, verbose error messages, or exposed services give attackers a head start.
What’s exposed in staging stays exposed in production—unless fixed.
Description: Old dependencies may contain known vulnerabilities ready for exploitation.
Outdated = unsafe. Always monitor your stack.
Description: Broken authentication lets attackers impersonate users and hijack sessions.
Protect the keys to your kingdom.
Description: Relying on unsigned or untrusted software can lead to compromised updates or plugins.
Trust, but verify. Especially your software supply chain.
Description: Without logs or alerts, attacks go undetected—costing time and damage control later.
You can’t protect what you can’t see.
Description: The server makes backend requests on behalf of the attacker—often into internal networks.
Don’t let your server become the attacker’s puppet.
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