Which of the following are security weaknesses in this example?

A penetration tester is inspecting traffic on a new mobile banking application and sends the following web request:

POST http://www.example.com/resources/NewBankAccount HTTP/1.1

Content-type: application/json

{

“account”:

[

{ “creditAccount”:”Credit Card Rewards account”}

{ “salesLeadRef”:”www.example.com/badcontent/exploitme.exe”}

],

“customer”:

[

{ “name”:”Joe Citizen”} { “custRef”:”3153151”}

]

}

The banking website responds with:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{

“newAccountDetails”:

[

{ “cardNumber”:”1234123412341234”} { “cardExpiry”:”2020-12-31”}

{ “cardCVV”:”909”}

],

“marketingCookieTracker”:“JSESSIONID=000000001”

“returnCode”:“Account added successfully”

}

Which of the following are security weaknesses in this example? (Select TWO).
A . Missing input validation on some fields
B . Vulnerable to SQL injection
C . Sensitive details communicated in clear-text
D . Vulnerable to XSS
E . Vulnerable to malware file uploads
F . JSON/REST is not as secure as XML

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Answer: A, C