Does anyone still believe that web applications aren’t prone to vulnerabilities? Please speak up. Studies tell us 94% of all tested applications have, in fact, shown major vulnerabilities when analyzed. In practical terms—this means the internet can be a risky place, so don’t go throwing your trust around so easily. This Web Application Vulnerabilities report of long-range of uncovered suggest 65% of the vulnerabilities found were mediumly severe, while the remaining 27% pointing to much worse. The report is clear and well-illustrated, collated through the security firm’s automated source code analysis, using the PT Application Inspector.
Leigh-Anne Galloway, Cyber Cyber Security Resilience Lead in a reputable IT company, was quoted as saying, “Web applications practically have a target painted at their back.” She added that a large number of unfixed, exploitable vulnerabilities can be a windfall for hackers, who then use these flaws to steal sensitive information or illegally access an internal network. Fortunately, most vulnerabilities can be discovered long before an attack ever happens. The key is to examine application source code.
Affecting 82% of tested web applications, the most frequent vulnerability all over the board was cross-site scripting. In which other critical vulnerabilities also find their way into government web applications. For example, a security assessment of a web application for a Russian local government revealed SQL Injection, a critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to obtain sensitive information from a database.
Many advanced vulnerabilities can get into the government web applications as well. Let’s take this incident as an example, a security assessment for a Russian local government revealed SQL Injection. It is a critical vulnerability that could allow attackers to acquire sensitive information from a database. And if the thought of vulnerable government web applications isn’t scary enough, let’s remember financial services are also very prone to cyber attacks. The analysis found that 46% of all tested web applications in this sector were at the greatest risk, with high-severity vulnerabilities found in 100% of tested banking and finance web applications.
The potential impact of every detected web application vulnerability was done. They also collected a list of the most common security threats. 87% of banking web applications and government web application users aren’t inclined to technology so they’re susceptible to cyber attacks.
Denial of Service is concluded to be a threat to e-commerce web applications because any downtime means missed business and lost customers. To those distinguished e-commerce web applications gain amounts of daily visits. This gives attackers great motivation to find vulnerabilities to turn against users.