OWASP Top 10
testing and compliance
Map your security findings to the OWASP Top 10 categories. Track which vulnerabilities have been found, remediated, and verified. Generate compliance reports for stakeholders.
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OWASP Top 10: mapping your findings to the industry standard for web application security
The OWASP Top 10 is a consensus-driven ranking of the most critical security risks to web applications, published by the Open Worldwide Application Security Project. Updated periodically based on data from hundreds of organisations and thousands of applications, it serves as a baseline for application security testing worldwide. Penetration testers, security consultants, and development teams use the OWASP Top 10 as a common language for categorising web application vulnerabilities, making it a de facto standard in security assessments, procurement requirements, and regulatory guidance.
For security teams, mapping findings to the OWASP Top 10 is not just a reporting convenience; it provides a structured framework for prioritising remediation and communicating risk to stakeholders who may not have deep technical backgrounds. A finding categorised under A01 (Broken Access Control) immediately signals a different risk profile than one under A09 (Logging and Monitoring Failures). SecPortal integrates OWASP mapping directly into the findings workflow, so categorisation happens at the point of discovery rather than as an afterthought during report assembly.
How SecPortal maps to the OWASP Top 10
A01: Broken Access Control
Restrictions on authenticated users are not properly enforced, allowing attackers to access unauthorised functions or data. This includes IDOR, privilege escalation, and missing access controls on API endpoints.
A02: Cryptographic Failures
Weaknesses related to cryptography (or lack thereof) that expose sensitive data. Covers issues such as weak algorithms, improper key management, cleartext transmission, and insufficient transport layer protection.
A03: Injection
Untrusted data sent to an interpreter as part of a command or query. Includes SQL injection, NoSQL injection, OS command injection, and LDAP injection where input validation and parameterised queries are absent.
A04: Insecure Design
Flaws in the design and architecture of an application rather than the implementation. Covers missing threat modelling, insecure design patterns, and insufficient security requirements during the design phase.
A05: Security Misconfiguration
Incorrectly configured permissions, unnecessary features enabled, default accounts unchanged, and overly verbose error messages. Applies to application servers, frameworks, cloud services, and network devices.
A06: Vulnerable Components
Using libraries, frameworks, or other software modules with known vulnerabilities. Includes outdated dependencies, unpatched components, and lack of software composition analysis in the development pipeline.
A07: Authentication Failures
Weaknesses in authentication mechanisms that allow credential stuffing, brute force attacks, session fixation, or session hijacking. Covers weak password policies and missing multi-factor authentication.
A08: Data Integrity Failures
Code and infrastructure that does not protect against integrity violations. Includes insecure deserialization, reliance on untrusted plugins or CDNs, and CI/CD pipelines without proper integrity verification.
A09: Logging and Monitoring Failures
Insufficient logging, detection, monitoring, and active response. Without proper audit trails and alerting, breaches go undetected and attackers have time to pivot, persist, and extract data.
A10: Server-Side Request Forgery
The application fetches a remote resource without validating the user-supplied URL. Attackers can coerce the server into making requests to internal services, bypassing firewalls and access controls.
Finding categorisation and remediation tracking
SecPortal enables your team to map every finding to OWASP categories as part of the standard finding creation workflow. CVSS scores are captured alongside each finding, giving stakeholders both an industry-standard severity metric and a categorical risk context. Remediation progress is tracked per category, so project managers can see at a glance which OWASP areas still have open issues.
- Each finding is mapped to one or more OWASP Top 10 categories during creation
- CVSS 3.1 scoring attached to every finding with base, temporal, and environmental metrics
- Dashboard breakdown showing finding counts and severity distribution per OWASP category
- Remediation tracking per category with status indicators (open, in progress, resolved, accepted)
- Trend analysis showing how OWASP category coverage changes across successive engagements
- Bulk categorisation tools for efficiently mapping large finding sets to OWASP categories
Reporting and evidence
When the engagement concludes, SecPortal generates OWASP-aligned reports that show exactly which categories were assessed, what was found, and what remediation has been completed. These reports combine structured data with AI-generated narrative summaries, producing deliverables that work for both technical audiences and executive stakeholders.
- OWASP Top 10 coverage report showing which categories were tested and their compliance status
- Finding-to-category traceability matrix exportable as CSV for client delivery
- Executive summary with OWASP category risk distribution and remediation progress
- AI-generated narrative sections explaining each OWASP category result in business context
- Per-category evidence collection linking screenshots, payloads, and remediation notes
- Historical comparison reports showing OWASP posture improvement over multiple assessments
By embedding OWASP Top 10 categorisation into the core findings workflow, SecPortal ensures that every engagement produces structured, standards-aligned output. Whether you are running a one-off web application assessment or managing a continuous testing programme, the OWASP mapping in SecPortal provides the consistency and traceability that clients and auditors expect.
Key control areas
SecPortal helps you track and manage compliance across these domains.
A01: Broken Access Control
Track findings related to access control failures, IDOR, privilege escalation, and missing authorization checks.
A02: Cryptographic Failures
Document weak encryption, plaintext data exposure, and certificate validation issues.
A03: Injection
Log SQL injection, XSS, command injection, and other injection vulnerabilities with CVSS scoring.
A07: Authentication Failures
Track authentication bypass, weak passwords, session management, and credential stuffing vulnerabilities.
A09: Security Logging Failures
Document gaps in logging, monitoring, and incident detection capabilities.
A10: SSRF
Track server-side request forgery findings and remediation status.
Map findings to OWASP
Track web app security across the Top 10 with pre-built templates.
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