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IDOR

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Learn about Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerabilities — what they are, how to find them in encoded IDs, hashed IDs, and unpredictable IDs, and where they hide (URL parameters, AJAX requests, JavaScript). Includes a practical exercise exploiting an IDOR in an API endpoint to access other users' data by changing the user ID parameter.

Skills You Will Learn

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Prerequisites

Walkthrough Phases

1

Understanding IDOR

Learn what IDOR vulnerabilities are and why they're dangerous

2

Finding IDORs

Learn where IDOR vulnerabilities hide and how IDs are obfuscated

3

Practical IDOR Exploitation

Exploit a real IDOR vulnerability in an API endpoint

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