OWASP Just Wrote the Security Rulebook for Vibe-Coded Apps
OWASP Top 10 2025 includes vibe coding for the first time. 45% of AI-generated code has vulnerabilities. Structured no-code platforms have defences — but only if you use them.
The OWASP Top 10 for 2025 is out, and for the first time, vibe coding is in the conversation. Not as its own category. Tanya Janca, now on the OWASP Top 10 team, told the Stack Overflow podcast the group wanted breach postmortem data on AI-generated code. They couldn't get it, so they flagged it through awareness items instead.
If you build with Bubble, Webflow, Glide, or Stacker, OWASP probably sounds like someone else's problem. It shouldn't be. The same vulnerabilities that wreck vibe-coded apps exist in no-code projects. They just take different shapes. And the numbers are stark: Veracode found that 45% of AI-generated code contains OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. Apiiro reported 322% more privilege escalation paths in AI-written code. Escape.tech scanned 5,600 vibe-coded apps and 65% had security issues.
The categories that hit closest to home. Three OWASP categories matter most for no-code builders: A01 Broken Access Control, A02 Security Misconfiguration, and A03 Software Supply Chain Failures. The rest — injection, authentication failures — are mostly handled by the platform.
What broken access control looks like in Bubble. In Bubble, it means privacy rules that aren't set. Bubble's privacy rules engine controls which users see which data at the database level. It's server-side. You can't bypass it by fiddling with URLs. But it only works if you configure it. I've seen apps where every data type was set to 'Everyone' because the builder forgot to lock things down. That's A01 in no-code form.
Supply chain: the AI hallucination problem. For vibe coders, this is existential. AI models hallucinate package names. Attackers register those names as malicious packages. If your AI assistant invents react-auth-validator and someone claims that namespace on npm, your app now runs attacker-controlled code. No-code platforms avoid this almost entirely — you're not importing npm packages.
Your no-code security checklist: Audit your privacy rules. Check your published pages. Rotate your API keys. Remove test accounts and debug data. Review your integrations. Five things. About an hour. Do them this week.
Want to read
more articles
like these?
Become a NoCode Member and get access to our community, discounts and - of course - our latest articles delivered straight to your inbox twice a month!
