What A07:2025 Authentication Failures requires
OWASP Top 10:2025 A07:2025 Authentication Failures. When an attacker is able to trick a system into recognizing an invalid or incorrect user as legitimate, this vulnerability is present. This category sits within the OWASP Top 10:2025 (the 2025 edition, finalized January 2026), the canonical industry list of the ten most critical web application security risks. Organizations building web applications should treat each of the ten categories as both a design constraint and a continuous-monitoring obligation, with policies, automated testing, and incident response procedures defined per category. Mapped weaknesses: CWE-258, CWE-259, CWE-287, CWE-288, CWE-289, CWE-290, CWE-294, CWE-295, CWE-306, CWE-307, CWE-384, CWE-521.
Pillar: Cybersecurity · Authority: OWASP Foundation (Open Worldwide Application Security Project) · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://owasp.org/Top10/2025/A07_2025-Authentication_Failures/
SHA-256 integrity: 4af6a261be126c7677f723964a433a1d8975572759df1f89351379003716cb85
Primary Citations — 13 traced to source
- OWASP Top 10:2025, A07:2025 Authentication Failures, How to Prevent: 'Where possible, implement and enforce use of multi-factor authentication to prevent automated credential stuffing, brute force, and stolen credential reuse attacks'
- OWASP Top 10:2025, A07:2025 Authentication Failures, How to Prevent: 'Where possible, encourage and enable the use of password managers, to help users make better choices'
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- Discovery (free): /api/v1/nodes/owasp-top-10-2025-a07-authentication-failures.json — 6-field metadata
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