Most vulnerable Software security Threat

 

 

Security testing is performed to figure out the security flaws and vulnerabilities in software. The rise in online transactions and advancing technology makes security testing an inevitable part of the softwaredevelopment process. This is the best way to determine potential threats in the software when performed regularly.

Following are the most vulnerable threats that can be detected early with the help of software testing:

 

Cross-site scripting:  XSS attacks inject client-side malicious scripts into a website and use the website as a distribution method. such vulnerabilities require the user to initiate some type of interaction through social engineering or visiting a specific page.

 

Sensitive data exposure: Confidential data disclosure is one of the mostcommon vulnerabilities. It consists of compromising data that should have been protected.

 

Injection: It leads to data loss, corruption, or exposure to unauthorized parties, loss of accountability, access denial, or even to a complete host takeover.

 

Broken Access Control:  While ensuring website security, access control means restricting access to sections or pages that visitors can visit, depending on their needs.

 

Insecure Deserialization: If an attacker can successfully deserialize an object, then modify the object to assign an administrator role to it, and serialize it again. This set of actions can jeopardize the entire web application.( Read more…)