A Review of the Vulnerabilities of Web Applications?

Insecure software is undermining our financial, healthcare, defense, energy, and other infrastructure. As our digital infrastructure gets increasingly complex and interconnected the difficulty of achieving application security increases exponentially. An attacker can target and compromise a database server in a number of ways by exploiting a variety of configurations and application level vulnerabilities. In this paper we discuss some attacks and weaknesses that can result in the compromise of a web application or its user.