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. 2025 Apr 30;11:e2821. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.2821

Table A7. RQ1: findings for OWASP top 10:2021 risk categories (number of web applications).

OWASP category Only SAST tools Only DAST tools Both approaches
A01:2021 Broken Access Control 0 75 0
A02:2021 Cryptographic Failures 14 3 1
A03:2021 Injection 7 0 68
A04:2021 Insecure Design 3 22 0
A05:2021 Security Misconfiguration 0 2 73
A06:2021 Vulnerable and Outdated Components 1 58 0
A07:2021 Identification and Authentication Failures 16 0 0
A08:2021 Software and Data Integrity Failures 1 12 0
A09:2021 Security Logging and Monitoring Failures 0 0 0
A10:2021 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) 3 2 0