{"id":1945,"date":"2008-08-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/08\/27\/whitehat-report-finds-web-site-security-vulnerabilities-persist\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:40:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:40:20","slug":"whitehat-report-finds-web-site-security-vulnerabilities-persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/08\/27\/whitehat-report-finds-web-site-security-vulnerabilities-persist\/","title":{"rendered":"WhiteHat Report Finds Web Site Security Vulnerabilities Persist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhiteHat Security&#8217;s latest report on Web site security shows cross-site scripting remains the most common Web site vulnerability.  WhiteHat Security&#8217;s latest report on Web site vulnerabilities has found the Internet in slightly better shape&#8212;emphasis on slightly.  In the fifth installment of the &#8220;WhiteHat Website Security Statistics Report,&#8221; the company has found that 82 percent of the 687 Web sites assessed by the company have had at least one security issue since WhiteHat began assessing them, a drop-off from the previous report released in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the company reported that overall vulnerability counts have started to decline, the most common vulnerabilities listed in the report will seem familiar to those who follow Web security.<\/p>\n<p>A new entry to the top 10 was cross-site request forgery, which allows an attacker to force a victim&#8217;s browser to make an authorized Web request.<\/p>\n<p>WhiteHat CTO Jeremiah Grossman also recommended that developers practice input validation and output filtering properly.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/Security\/WhiteHat-Report-Finds-Web-Site-Security-Vulnerabilities-Persist\/?kc=rss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4432,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/4432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}