Web Application Security Threats in 2025: 10 Critical Risks Every Organization Must Address

In 2025, web application security faces significant challenges as AI tools expedite code production and APIs become central to digital infrastructure, leading to rapid development cycles and expanded attack surfaces. Ten critical security threats identified by the OWASP Top 10 include broken access control, cryptographic failures, injection attacks (including emerging AI prompt injection), insecure design, and security misconfiguration. These issues are compounded by the use of vulnerable and outdated components, identification and authentication failures, software and data integrity failures, insufficient logging and monitoring, and server-side request forgery (SSRF). As new threats like AI-powered attack vectors and cloud-native risks emerge, organizations are urged to adopt automated security tools and practices, focusing on continuous testing and integration with CI/CD pipelines to maintain application security without hindering development speed. StackHawk offers dynamic application security testing (DAST) and API security testing solutions, integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to provide developers with continuous visibility and actionable remediation for vulnerabilities before applications reach production.