owasp-top-10-testing

SKILL.md

Test against the OWASP Top 10

The OWASP Top 10 is a taxonomy of risk categories, not a test suite — "OWASP Top 10 testing" means exercising each category against the real application and reporting what's actually exploitable. Strix's agents do the exploitation; this skill covers running it category-by-category and reporting coverage honestly.

Use the current edition: OWASP Top 10:2025 (8th installment, superseding 2021). Ask the user before targeting an older edition — some compliance checklists still reference 2021, and a report labelled with the wrong edition is misleading. Key differences from 2021: SSRF is folded into A01, A03 Software Supply Chain Failures expands the old "Vulnerable and Outdated Components", and A10 Mishandling of Exceptional Conditions is new; A02 Security Misconfiguration moved 5→2.

Install, LLM setup, and the managed-cloud alternative: penetration-testing-with-strix. For a run with no Docker and no LLM key, the same binary drives the managed platform: strix cloud login, then strix cloud scans start ... (details in managed-pentesting-with-strix).

What is and is not testable by an agent

Be straight with the user about this — claiming a clean sweep of all ten is misleading.