OWASP Top 10 Compliance Checker

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Check Your Application Against the OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities

The OWASP Top 10 is the most widely recognized awareness document for web application security. It represents the ten most critical security risks that web applications face, as determined by security professionals worldwide. The OWASP Top 10 Compliance Checker helps development and security teams assess their applications against each of these ten risk categories, identify gaps in their defenses, and prioritize remediation efforts based on actual risk exposure.

Many organizations reference the OWASP Top 10 in their security policies, compliance requirements, and vendor assessments, but few have a systematic way to evaluate whether their applications actually address each item. This tool provides that systematic approach.

The Ten Risk Categories

The checker covers all current OWASP Top 10 categories. Broken Access Control evaluates whether your application properly enforces authorization, preventing users from acting outside their intended permissions. Cryptographic Failures checks for weaknesses in data protection, including sensitive data exposure and improper use of encryption.

Injection covers SQL injection, NoSQL injection, command injection, and other attacks where untrusted data is sent to an interpreter. Insecure Design examines whether security was considered during the application's design phase, not just its implementation.

Security Misconfiguration addresses default credentials, unnecessary features enabled, missing security headers, and overly permissive configurations. Vulnerable and Outdated Components checks whether you're tracking and updating your dependencies.

Identification and Authentication Failures covers weak passwords, session management issues, and credential stuffing vulnerabilities. Software and Data Integrity Failures examines CI/CD pipeline security and insecure deserialization. Security Logging and Monitoring Failures assesses your ability to detect and respond to breaches. Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) evaluates protections against attacks that trick your server into making unintended requests.

How the Compliance Check Works

For each of the ten categories, the tool presents a series of specific, actionable questions about your application's security controls. These aren't vague yes-or-no questions but targeted assessments like: "Does your application enforce server-side access control checks for every API endpoint, not just the UI?" and "Are all user inputs parameterized when used in database queries?"

Answer honestly based on your current implementation. The tool scores each category as compliant, partially compliant, or non-compliant, with specific findings explaining what's missing. Partial compliance means you have some controls in place but gaps remain.

The final report presents an overall compliance posture, a risk-prioritized list of findings, and recommended remediation steps for each gap. Categories are ranked by risk so your team can address the most dangerous vulnerabilities first.

Who Should Run This Check?

Development teams conducting security self-assessments can use the checker as a structured framework for evaluating their own applications. It's far more thorough than an ad-hoc review and produces documentation that can be shared with stakeholders.

Security teams performing application assessments across a portfolio of applications benefit from the standardized evaluation framework. Comparing OWASP compliance across twenty applications reveals which ones need the most attention.

Compliance officers verifying that development teams meet security requirements can use the checker's output as evidence of due diligence. Many audit frameworks reference the OWASP Top 10 as a baseline expectation.

Product managers evaluating third-party software can ask vendors to complete the assessment, providing a standardized way to compare the security posture of competing products.

Real-World Applications

A fintech startup preparing for a SOC 2 audit runs the checker against their core application and discovers that while their authentication is solid, their logging and monitoring capabilities are insufficient to detect breaches. They prioritize implementing centralized logging before the audit.

An enterprise development team uses the checker as part of their release process. No application ships to production with any OWASP Top 10 category marked as non-compliant.

A security consultant uses the tool during initial client assessments to quickly identify the highest-risk areas and focus their manual testing efforts where they'll find the most impactful vulnerabilities.

Getting the Most Value

Run the check with both a developer and a security-minded person present. Developers know what controls are implemented, while security personnel know what controls should be implemented. The gap between those perspectives is where vulnerabilities live.

Reassess after every major release or architectural change. Security compliance is not a one-time achievement but an ongoing practice.

The OWASP Top 10 Compliance Checker runs entirely in your browser. Your security assessment data stays private, and the tool requires no account or subscription.