OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities

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Question 1

What does the OWASP Top 10 list represent?

  • Best websites of the year

  • The most common and critical web application security vulnerabilities

  • Certification exams

  • Programming languages

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Question 2

Which vulnerability allows attackers to access resources they shouldn’t due to weak enforcement of user permissions?

  • Injection

  • Broken Access Control

  • Cryptographic Failures

  • Server-Side Request Forgery

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Question 3

How can injection vulnerabilities (like SQL injection) be prevented?

  • Using weak passwords

  • Building SQL queries through string concatenation

  • Using parameterized queries or prepared statements and validating all inputs

  • Disabling firewalls

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Question 4

What type of attack manipulates a web server into making unauthorized HTTP requests to internal resources?

  • Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

  • Denial of Service

  • Cross-Site Scripting

  • Phishing

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Question 5

Which OWASP vulnerability involves apps failing to maintain integrity of their software or data, risking code injection or malicious updates?

  • Security Misconfiguration

  • Software and Data Integrity Failures

  • Whaling

  • Vishing

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