{"id":5114,"date":"2019-02-27T14:43:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T06:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=5114"},"modified":"2019-03-05T18:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T10:33:54","slug":"what-are-the-most-critical-web-vulnerabilities-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2019\/02\/what-are-the-most-critical-web-vulnerabilities-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the MOST Critical Web Vulnerabilities in 2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what is wild on the web this year? Need to know about the most critical web vulnerabilities in 2019 to protect your organization?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/What-are-the-MOST-Critical-Web-Vulnerabilities-in-2019-640x352.png\" alt=\"What are the MOST Critical Web Vulnerabilities in 2019\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/What-are-the-MOST-Critical-Web-Vulnerabilities-in-2019-640x352.png 640w, https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/What-are-the-MOST-Critical-Web-Vulnerabilities-in-2019-1024x563.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/What-are-the-MOST-Critical-Web-Vulnerabilities-in-2019.png 1206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well luckily for you Acunetix compiles an annual web application vulnerability report which is a fairly hefty piece of analysis on data gathered from the previous year. This is compiled 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.<\/p>\n<p>To be more specific:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>67,355 Network scans<\/li>\n<li>10,000 Scan targets<\/li>\n<li>76,686 Web scans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was found that as many that almost half of the scanned websites contain high severity vulnerabilities with almost all containing medium severity vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/2019_High_Severity_Vulnerabilities.png\" alt=\"2019 High Severity Vulnerabilities\" width=\"604\" height=\"356\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5116\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>What are the most critical web vulnerabilities in 2019?<\/h2>\n<p>The report gives you the low down on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which vulnerabilities are rising and falling in frequency<\/li>\n<li>Current security concerns, such as the increasing complexity of new apps, the accelerating rate of new versions, and the problem of scale<\/li>\n<li>Changes in threat landscape from both the client and server sides<\/li>\n<li>The four major stages of vulnerability analysis<\/li>\n<li>Vulnerability findings by type and severity<\/li>\n<li>An analysis of each discovered vulnerability in terms of how it works, its statistical status and pointers for remediation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, top line message &#8211; keep yourself safe!<\/p>\n<p>You can download the full report here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acunetix.com\/acunetix-web-application-vulnerability-report\/?utm_source=hacktools&#038;utm_campaign=security&#038;utm_medium=content\">Acunetix Web Application Vulnerability Report 2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what is wild on the web this year? 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