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API Security: OWASP API Top 10

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API security: the OWASP API Top 10

APIs have different attack patterns than web apps. Traditional web app security focused on XSS and CSRF; APIs face BOLA (accessing other users' data by changing an ID), mass assignment (sending extra fields that get applied), and rate limit bypass (scraping entire datasets).

OWASP maintains a dedicated API Security Top 10 because these vulnerabilities are systemic to how REST APIs are commonly built.

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