CWE Timeline Examples · Example 1 of 1

For every year since 1988, the CWE weakness types of that year's CVEs with their counts.

No parameters. year runs from 1988 to the current year; cwe_stats lists the CWEs of that year's CVEs, the most common first, with cwe_id, cwe_name and count.

What to Notice

The early years have few or no CWE assignments (cwe_stats is empty for 1988). In 2026 the most common weakness is CWE-79, cross-site scripting (6,138 CVEs), ahead of CWE-284 and CWE-862. This page shows the first 10 CWEs of each year.

Request

What this example sends. Every parameter is documented on CWE Timeline; the exact request is in the code panel.

This request sends no parameters.

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