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5 Vulnerabilities Every Startup Misses Before Their First Pentest

Common but devastating issues we see during the first scan of nearly every funded startup.

May 08, 05:34 AM·by Admin·5 min read
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What we find on the very first scan

  1. Exposed `/.git/config` — source-control metadata leaks repo structure and secrets.
  2. Default admin endpoints — /admin, /wp-admin, /phpmyadmin reachable from public internet.
  3. Missing security headers — CSP, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options.
  4. Deprecated TLS — 1.0/1.1 still enabled on legacy load balancers.
  5. CORS wildcards — Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * on authenticated APIs.

Each of these maps to a CWE and is detected automatically by SecInfos Radar.

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