Common web application vulnerabilities

Application developers should be aware of the security guidelines and follow the standards to ensure they build a secure web application. Web application vulnerabilities are some of the commonly occurring mistakes in application development, and can lead to data breach in our applications and can compromise our applications' security. There are a number of software solutions (such as CheckMarx) available to determine security violations in applications via a software scan, and to fix the problems. Let us review the most common web application vulnerabilities in the upcoming sections.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

An XSS vulnerability occurs due to insufficient client-side validation on web pages if the web pages load the data from users and include this in web pages without validating the data. This lets the hacker’s script execute on a victim's browser and show arbitrary content, that the victim believes is real and from the application, and so he provides...