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What is OWASP Top 10?

The OWASP Top 10 is a widely used awareness list, published by the Open Worldwide Application Security Project, of the ten most critical categories of web application security risk, updated every few years.

OWASP is a nonprofit community that publishes free security guidance. Its Top 10 is the list most teams start from: a ranked set of risk categories based on real-world data and expert input, not a checklist of every possible bug. The 2021 edition includes Broken Access Control at number one, then Cryptographic Failures, Injection, Insecure Design, Security Misconfiguration, and Vulnerable and Outdated Components.

It also lists Identification and Authentication Failures, Software and Data Integrity Failures, Security Logging and Monitoring Failures, and Server-Side Request Forgery. Many of the problems that show up in AI-generated apps sit in these categories, especially missing access checks, exposed configuration, injection, and outdated packages.

Use it as a map, not a certificate. Passing a scan does not mean you have covered the list. Walk through each category and ask where it applies to your app: who can reach which data, where you accept input, what you log, which dependencies are old. Customers and auditors often use the list as a shared vocabulary, so knowing it helps when they ask questions.

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Sources

  1. 1.OWASP Top 10:2021
  2. 2.OWASP Top 10 project page