Case Studies on Web Application Vulnerabilities: Analyzing the Causes, Impact and Mitigation Strategies
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Case Studies on Web Application Vulnerabilities: Analyzing the Causes, Impact and Mitigation Strategies
Akhil Patel , Divy Gupta , Tanish Shetty , Atharva Kumar
2nd Year CSE, School of Computing MIT-ADT University Pune, India
ADT24SOCB0382@mitun iversity.edu.in
Abstract—As the use of web applications rises, so does the risk associated with them. This paper is a collection of case study analysis of real-world cases of web application vulnerabilities, examining the causes, impact, and potential mitigation strategies. We analyzed five different case studies with a range of security flaws, including OS command injection, CORS misconfiguration, SQL injection (SQLi), cross-site scripting (XSS), broken access control, HTML injection, web cache poisoning, and more. We aim to shed light into these real-world cases of web exploitation, to emphasize the need for proper implementation of security practices in web development. We also focused on comparing these cases on the OWASP ranking to show the prevalence of the common vulnerabilities.
Keywords—Cybersecurity; Web Application Security; Case Study; Penetration Testing; Web Vulnerabilities.
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