

A07:2021-Identification and Authentication Failures was previously Broken Authentication and is sliding down from the second position, and now includes CWEs that are more related to identification failures.

It is the only category not to have any Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVEs) mapped to the included CWEs, so a default exploit and impact weights of 5.0 are factored into their scores. This category moves up from #9 in 2017 and is a known issue that we struggle to test and assess risk. A06:2021-Vulnerable and Outdated Components was previously titled Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities and is #2 in the Top 10 community survey, but also had enough data to make the Top 10 via data analysis.The former category for XML External Entities (XXE) is now part of this category. With more shifts into highly configurable software, it’s not surprising to see this category move up.

#And yet it moves wiki software#
Using the OWASP Top 10 is perhaps the most effective first step towards changing the software development culture within your organization into one that produces more secure code. Globally recognized by developers as the first step towards more secure coding.Ĭompanies should adopt this document and start the process of ensuring that their web applications minimize these risks. It represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications. The OWASP Top 10 is a standard awareness document for developers and web application security.
