Security in WEB applications has become a major concern for the scientific and business communities today. An increasing amount of money is being spent for handling information security.. Therefore, giving the proper importance of handling information security, the paper focuses on: definitions of software security, vulnerabilities and risks, dealing with various threats and vulnerabilities, the risk ranking created by OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) and describes different tools that can be used for security within a Web application using a test, some of them are Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP)
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