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Web security audits - Methodologies, tools and experience return
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Web security audits - Methodologies, tools and experience return

Author : Laurent BUTTI

Publication date: April 10, 2014 | Lire en français

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This chapter presents case studies of safety audits and their implementation in an operational context.

4.1 Problems encountered during audits

In terms of spot audits, we noted the following :

  • common XSS vulnerabilities, in particular DOM-Based XSS ;

  • SQL injection vulnerabilities are becoming less and less common;

  • very rare file/resource injection vulnerabilities ;

  • vulnerabilities involving inadequate protection of sensitive data (e.g. passwords), which are quite common ;

  • common misconfiguration vulnerabilities.

There are several possible reasons...

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