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| Rank | Risk | Quick example | |------|------|----------------| | 1 | Broken Access Control | User A edits User B’s profile by changing an ID in the URL. | | 2 | Cryptographic Failures | Storing passwords in plain text. | | 3 | Injection | SQL injection: ' OR '1'='1 | | 4 | Insecure Design | No threat modeling before coding. | | 5 | Security Misconfiguration | Default admin passwords left unchanged. | | 6 | Vulnerable Components | Using an old jQuery library with known CVEs. | | 7 | Identification Failures | No multi-factor authentication (MFA). | | 8 | Software & Data Integrity Failures | No code signing or dependency verification. | | 9 | Security Logging Failures | No logs of failed logins. | | 10 | SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery) | App fetches a URL user provides → internal AWS metadata exposed. | owasp tutorial
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That’s where (The Open Web Application Security Project) comes in. It’s not a tool or a piece of software. It’s a worldwide non-profit community dedicated to improving software security. | | 2 | Cryptographic Failures | Storing