OWASP Top 10
The OWASP Top 10 is a regularly updated, widely referenced list of the most critical web application security risks — currently including issues like broken access control, injection, and security misconfiguration — published by the Open Worldwide Application Security Project as a baseline standard for security testing priorities.
The list is compiled from real-world vulnerability data contributed by organizations across the industry, ranked by prevalence and severity, and updated roughly every few years to reflect how the threat landscape is actually shifting — broken access control and injection flaws have consistently ranked near the top across multiple revisions.
It functions less as an exhaustive checklist and more as a shared, industry-standard vocabulary and starting point — many compliance frameworks, security tools, and penetration testing engagements explicitly scope their work against the current OWASP Top 10 as a recognized baseline everyone in the industry understands.
