Security Testing Services & Types of Vulnerabilities

Security Testing Service – is the testing strategy that is used for validating the system security, for analyzing risks, which are connected with providing a holistic approach to application protection, hacker attacks, viruses, unauthorized access to sensitive data. There are some major types of vulnerabilities. Security testing companies consider them the most common in the sphere of IT testing services.

Types of Vulnerabilities

#1. XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) – this type of software vulnerability (web applications), when on the 336-page server, the attacker runs malicious scripts, with a view to attack a client.

#2. XSRF / CSRF (Request Forgery) – the given vulnerability allows using the shortcomings of HTTP protocol.

#3. Code Injections (SQL, PHP, ASP, etc.) – this vulnerability allows launching the executable code to gain access to the system resources, unauthorized data access or breeding system inoperable.

#4. Server-Side Includes (SSI) Injection – this vulnerability uses the insert of server commands in the HTML code or launch them directly from the server.

#5. Authorization Bypass – this is the kind of vulnerability, which may gain unauthorized access to any account or another user’s documents