From LOW to CRITICAL: How a 5-Step Vulnerability Chain Goes Undetected by Flat Scanners

A real scan walkthrough using DVWA By Eldor Zufarov, Founder of Auditor Core Originally published on DataWizual Blog The Setup Most security scanners give you a list sorted by CVSS. A CRITICAL at the top, some HIGH findings below, and a long tail of LOW and MEDIUM that nobody ever fixes. Teams triage by severity, patch the top items, and move on. This approach has a blind spot. It misses chains. Here is a real example from a scan of DVWA (Damn Vulnerable Web Application) — a deliberately vulnera