Top 5 OWASP Vulnerabilities We See Most Often
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After running thousands of scans on Hostile Review, we've noticed some clear patterns in the most common vulnerabilities that keep showing up across codebases. Here are the top 5:
1. Injection flaws -- SQL injection is still alive and well, especially in legacy code and ORMs used incorrectly.
2. Broken authentication -- Weak session handling, missing rate limits on login endpoints, predictable tokens.
3. Sensitive data exposure -- API keys in client-side code, secrets committed to repos, unencrypted PII in logs.
4. Security misconfiguration -- Default credentials, overly permissive CORS, debug mode left on in production.
5. XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) -- Reflected and stored XSS remain shockingly common, especially in user-generated content areas.
What are you seeing in your own projects? Any patterns that surprise you?
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