Acunetix Web Application Vulnerability Report 2019
Acunetix compiles an annual web application vulnerability report.
The purpose of this report is to provide security experts and
interested parties with an analysis of data on vulnerabilities gathered
over the previous year. The 2019 report contains the results and
analysis of vulnerabilities, detected from the automated web and network
perimeter scans run on the Acunetix Online platform, over a 12 month
period, across more than 10,000 scan targets. It was found that as many
as 46% of websites contain high severity vulnerabilities with 87% of
websites containing medium severity vulnerabilities. Although SQL
Injection vulnerabilities are on the slight decline, XSS
vulnerabilities, vulnerable JavaScript libraries, and WordPress related
issues were found to each claim a significant 30% of the sampled
targets.
The Web Application Vulnerability Report 2019 contains vital security information on:
- Which vulnerabilities are rising and falling in frequency
- Current security concerns, such as the increasing complexity of new apps, the accelerating rate of new versions, and the problem of scale
- Changes in threat landscape from both the client and server sides
- The four major stages of vulnerability analysis
- Vulnerability findings by type and severity
- An analysis of each discovered vulnerability in terms of how it works, its statistical status and pointers for remediation.
The report concludes that web application vulnerabilities are a major
threat to the security of all organizations, regardless of their size,
location, or the security steps they’ve taken. Automated and integrated
web application security scanning must become an integral part of the
development process.
Acunetix Web Application Vulnerability Report 2019
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