The Most Commonly Exploited Web Application Vulnerabilities in a Production Environment

The Most Commonly Exploited Web Application Vulnerabilities in a Production Environment

Some of the most common web application vulnerabilities tend to be the most exploited because they are difficult to spot, often overlooked by security teams and sought after by attackers. Another reason these vulnerabilities manifest in production environments is because they were never detected while the application was being written, indicating that security wasn’t baked into the development process. Without visibility, security is in the dark and these issues are only detected after the fact—or when an attacker or user finds them.


So, what are the most exploited web application vulnerabilities, and how can you avoid them in your development process? Let’s dig in.


Meet the top 10 commonly exploited vulnerabilities


Every few years, OWASP compiles a list of the 10 most commonly exploited vulnerabilities based on a survey of over 500 industry specialists encompassing more than 100,000 production applications. Vulnerabilities are selected based on exploitability, detectability, and impact. The result is a list that gives us great visibility into what the infosec community is seeing with regards to application security. It’s a great way to assess your appsec posture, prioritize threats, and remediate them.


Learn about each of them below:


1. Injections


Injections have been running rampant for over 20 years because they can take many forms and are ubiquitous across frameworks. According to OWASP, injection flaws such as SQL, NoSQL, OS, and LDAP occur when untrusted data is sent to an interpreter as part of a com ..

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