The Web Hacking Incidents Database

Updated: 
8 February 2009

The web hacking incident database (WHID) is a Web Application Security Consortium project dedicated to maintaining a list of web applications related security incidents.WHID goal is to serve as a tool for raising awareness of the web application security problem and provide information for statistical analysis of web applications security incidents.

"Thanks so much for the WHID, having a public repository such as this makes it easier for security practitioners to justify what they do for their colleagues. You make my job easier, thanks!"

-Erik Cabetas, Security Officer for a large E-Commerce website.

The database is unique in tracking only media reported security incidents that can be associated with a web application security vulnerability. Refer to the FAQ for further information on what you will find and what you will not find in WHID.If you have additional information on those or other web hacking incidents, you are more than welcome to share this information with us.

Drill Down

Attack Method

Outcome

Year

Administration Error
ARP spoofing
Bots and Worms
Brute Force
Buffer Overflow
Clickjacking
Content Spoofing
Credential/Session Prediction
Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
Denial of Service
Directory Indexing
DNS Hijacking
Drive by Pharming
Failure to Restrict URL Access
Format String Attack
HTTP Response Splitting
Improper Error Handling
Insecure Direct Object Reference
Insufficient Anti Automation
Insufficient Authentication
Insufficient Authorization
Insufficient Encryption
Insufficient Process Validation
Insufficient Session Expiration
Known Vulnerability
LDAP Injection
Local File Inclusion (LFI)
Misconfiguration
OS Commanding
Other
Path Traversal
Predictable Resource Location
Redirection
Remote File Inclusion
Session Fixation
Session Hijacking
SQL Injection
SSI Injection
Unintentional Information Disclosure
Unknown
Various
Weak Password Recovery Validation
Worm
XPath Injection

Real World Impact:
Chaos
Deceit
Extortion
Identity Theft
Information Warfare
Monetary Loss
- Loss of Sales
Physical Pain
Political Defacement

Intermidiate outcome:
Defacement
Downtime
Leakage of Information
Link Spam
Phishing
Planting of Malware
Spam

Other:
Disclosure Only
Various

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2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009

Disclaimers: WHID is based entirely on public information. All the incidents listed here where reported publicly before on other web sites and each incident includes references to those sites. Please also note that unless mentioned otherwise all the vulnerabilities listed have already been fixed.