The 10 most common web vulnerabilities — the required reading for anyone building web backends.
Category · Security & Compliance
The required canon for web backends.
The OWASP Top 10 is a regularly updated list of the most common and most consequential vulnerabilities in web applications — published by the Open Worldwide Application Security Project. It ranges from broken access control through injection to insecure configurations.
The list isn't a standard but a consensus on where applications most often fail in practice. Anyone building web backends should know it.
How we work with it.
We treat the Top 10 as a checklist in the development process: check access control per endpoint, validate inputs consistently, keep dependencies up to date, configure securely. Much of that can be built into the CI/CD pipeline automatically.
That way whole classes of bugs are prevented before code even reaches production.
A foundation, not a seal of quality.
The Top 10 covers the most common problems, not all of them. It replaces neither a clean architecture nor a pentest. "We followed the OWASP Top 10" means: the known issues are covered — not that the application is secure.
It's the beginning of a security practice, not its end.