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Study: Top Web Application Vulnerabilities Remain Unfixed
- SQL injection: 27 percent;
- Cross-site scripting: 24 percent;
- Miscellaneous: 15 percent;
- Web servers: 12 percent;
- Directory traversal: 10 percent;
- Remote file inclusion: 4 percent;
- Media applications: 3 percent;
- Web browsers: 3 percent;
- Authorization and authentication: 2 percent; and
- Cross-site request forgery: 2 percent.
The complete study, with breakdowns of the top-10 specific vulnerabilities, is available for download from Cenzic's site in PDF format here.
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