Simple, schematic, faster to develop, and quick deployments make APIs so popular and widely used. So, naturally, it brings various challenges to maintain its implementations and keep them secured from various threats, such as Man-in-the-Middle attacks, lack of XML encryptions, insecure endpoints, API URL parameters, and so on.
REST API has similar vulnerabilities as a web application. In this article, we will present a few common API vulnerabilities that every developer should be aware of and on the lookout for in their code.