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Top 3 Most Popular Web Application Vulnerabilities - Security Scans of 396 Open Source Web Applications

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Since 2011 Web Application Vulnerability scanners scanned 396 open source web applications. The scanners identified 269 vulnerabilities and a popular web vulnerability scanner published 114 advisories about the 0-day ones. 32 of the advisories include details about multiple vulnerabilities. According to the statistics above, around 30% of the open source web applications we scanned had some sort of direct impact vulnerability.

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Out of the 269 vulnerabilities a specific scanner detected the web vulnerability scanners identified:

  • 180 were Cross-site Scripting vulnerabilities. These include reflected, stored, DOM Based XSS and XSS via RFI.
  • 55 were SQL Injection vulnerabilities. These also include the Boolean and Blind (Time Based) SQL Injections.
  • 16 were File Inclusion vulnerabilities, including both remote and local file inclusions.

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The rest of the vulnerability types are CSRF, Remote Command Execution, Command Injection, Open Redirection, HTTP Header Injection (web server software issue) and Frame injection.

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