Components With Known Vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10)
Occasionally, you may find that the company/entity that you’re pen-testing is using a program that already has a well documented vulnerability.
For example, let’s say that a company hasn’t updated their version of WordPress for a few years, and using a tool such as wpscan, you find that it’s version 4.6. Some quick research will reveal that WordPress 4.6 is vulnerable to an unauthenticated remote code execution(RCE) exploit, and even better you can find an exploit already made on exploit-db.
This would be quite devastating, because it requires very little work on the part of the attacker as often times since the vulnerability is already well known, someone else has made an exploit for the vulnerability. The situation becomes even worse when you realize, that it’s really quite easy for this to happen, if a company misses a single update for a program they use, they could be vulnerable to any number of attacks.
Hence, OWASP has rated this a 3(meaning high) on the prevalence scale, it is incredibly easy for a company to miss an update for an application.
