Website/ Application Security Vulnerabilities

SureshRajan P
Vegabird
Published in
2 min readJun 11, 2019

Vulnerability refers to the weakness in the Web Application, where the hackers find the security weakness to perform unauthorized actions in the applications to do harmful your business or your organization.

Systematic Image about Attackers path:

To do harmful to your business growth or your organization, Hackers can able to use this different paths to enter your applications/ websites.

These Image shows that these paths represents a risk that may, may not be serious enough to warrant attention.

Most of the times this paths are easy to find, sometimes they are extremely difficult to find. Similarly the impact that is caused may put you out of business or may be of no consequence.

Some Important Attacks Released by OWASP till 2017

OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is an organization that provides unbiased and practical, cost-effective information about computer and Internet applications.

It’s released some top 10 Vulnerability attacks till 2017.

A1:2017 — Injection

A2:2017 — Broken Authentication

A3:2017 — Sensitive Data Exposure

A4:2017 — XML External Entities (XXE)

A5:2017 — Broken Access Control

A6:2017 — Security Misconfiguration

A7:2017 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

A8:2017 — Insecure Deserialization

A9:2017 — Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities

A10:2017 — Insufficient Logging & Monitoring

3 key terms in cyber-security

  • Vulnerabilities
  • Exploits
  • Threats

How to find vulnerabilities in a website using vooki?

*Start the Vooki Application and open web application scanner.

*Provide the URL and select the browser and click

* Visit all the pages of your web application and submit all the forms Including edit operation.

*Right click on node appearing on Vooki tool and click on the scan.

*After scan gets completed click on generate report from the menu bar

Find, prioritize, and reduce risk in your environment with Vooki - website vulnerability scanner

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