2025 CWE Top 25: Mitre's Critical Software Weakness Rankings and Trends
MITRE released the 2025 CWE Top 25 on December 11, 2025, identifying the most dangerous software weaknesses based on 39,080 CVE Records published between June 2024 and June 2025. The list ranks weaknesses by their frequency as root causes in CVE data and their CVSS severity scores, highlighting persistent threats like XSS and SQL Injection alongside emerging issues such as authorization flaws and memory bugs—key priorities for DevSecOps teams securing modern cloud‑native applications. Explore how the 2025 rankings differ from 2024, the top ten shifts, and what CWE root causes reveal beyond CVE trends. ...