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wyc
wyc

Reputation: 55283

What are the common website vulnerabilities, and the programming languages related to them?

As far as know, I must be careful with PHP, and I think Javascript. What else?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 606

Answers (2)

sutch
sutch

Reputation: 1295

OWASP provides an annual report describing the top ten web application security flaws (see link below for description of the project and the most recent report). As SLaks wrote, many vulnerabilities are independent of the language. Web applications need to be designed with security in mind.

http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project

Upvotes: 1

SLaks
SLaks

Reputation: 887479

Security vulnerabilities are (mostly) independent of the language involved (except for memory issues).

Instead, you should focus on tasks with potential vulnerabilities, such as processing user input or handling sensitive data.

Some things to watch out for:

  • Always use parameters in SQL
  • Always escape correctly (when generating HTML, JSON, Javascript strings, or anything else)
  • Be extremely careful when executing code dynamically (eg, eval, automatic updates, etc)
  • Always validate user input on the server

You should also read articles about security, such as the Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors.

Upvotes: 5

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