Web App Vulnerability Patterns | Dataford Interview Questions

What are common security vulnerabilities in web applications?

Write a function that classifies each description into one of these labels: sql-injection, xss, csrf, auth-bypass, path-traversal, open-redirect, ssrf, or unknown.

Function

def classify_vulnerabilities(descriptions):

descriptions is a list of strings.
Return a list of labels of the same length, one label per description.
Match a label if the description contains a clear keyword or phrase for that vulnerability, case-insensitively.

Constraints

1 <= len(descriptions) <= 100
1 <= len(descriptions[i]) <= 300
Each description contains only printable ASCII characters
Matching is case-insensitive

Function Signature

def classify_vulnerabilities(descriptions):

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