Ensuring Web Application Security: An OWASP Driven Development Methodology

Website security is a big threat for both large companies and individual developers, the more advanced the technology employed, the more challenging it is to build secure website development procedures. Hackers can easily access vulnerabilities that were not patched during development and that were thereafter distributed. This could result in significant financial losses for the business or the person. Users who visit vulnerable websites may be subject to XSS attacks that could compromise their systems, or an unsecure database configuration may result in a potential data leak, in which case the password of every user who has registered on the website is compromised. Users who use the same password on numerous websites run the danger of identity theft. This study offers the most common vulnerabilities that should be fixed in any application, giving developers the crucial place to start. The overwhelming number of vulnerabilities in each application that is being developed served as the impetus for this project. Every developer, regardless of expertise level, needs a place to start in order to fix any vulnerabilities that may have appeared in their program. The goal of this project is to create a safe online application in accordance with the recommendations of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWSAP). This demonstrates how web application vulnerabilities can be mitigated through coding changes, configuration adjustments, and patch applications. The top ten vulnerabilities according to OWASP are SQL injections, faulty authentication, sensitive data exposure, faulty access control, and XML external entities. The web application’s security has been examined and shown to have defenses in place for those vulnerabilities.