2017 Saw Software Vulnerabilities Increase by 31 Percent in 2017 compared to 2016. There were a total of 20,832 security flaws recorded in the U.S. government’s National Vulnerability Database. 39.5 percent of all vulnerabilities reported had public exploits or the level of detail available to allow the creation of functioning exploits. Over 50 percent of the vulnerabilities reported were found in web applications; XSS accounted for 36 percent of this while SQL accounted for 19 percent. Almost one-fourth of these vulnerabilities reported have no patch or other known solutions.”]
Source: https://hackercombat.com/2017-saw-software-vulnerabilities-increase-31-percent/