We are trying to make the CWE name and description more clear about the weakness being covered, and to keep the perspective on the weakness itself, instead of the attack or consequence. However, to keep CWE entries as accessible to the everyday user as possible, we want to preserve commonplace terminology where feasible.
We tried to change the names so that a CWE consumer would not have to depend so much on looking up the item's description and associated notes, just to figure out what the item is talking about.
Support for Alternate Names
Sometimes, multiple terms are used for the same weakness, such as "Cross-site Request Forgery" and "Cross-site Reference Forgery". These alternate terms are recorded in CWE. For terms that are extremely common, we include them in parentheses, such as: