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Dr. Sunny Wear
Dr. Sunny Wear
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Dr. Sunny Wear

Dr. Sunny Wear is a web security architect and penetration tester. She provides secure coding classes, creates software, and performs penetration testing on web/API and mobile applications. Sunny has more than 25 years of hands-on software programming, architecture, and security experience and holds a Doctor of Science in Cybersecurity. She is a content creator on Pluralsight, with three courses on Burp Suite. She is a published author, a developer of mobile apps such as Burp Tool Buddy, and a content creator on courses related to web security and penetration testing. She regularly speaks and holds classes at security conferences such as Defcon, Hackfest, and BSides.
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Testing for IDOR

Allowing unauthorized direct access to files or resources on a system based on user-supplied input is known as IDOR. This vulnerability allows us to bypass authorization checks placed on such files or resources. IDOR is a result of unchecked user-supplied input to retrieve an object without performing authorization checks in the application code.

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Let’s use the Insecure direct object references PortSwigger lab, which is located in the Access control section of All labs, as our target application. We will attempt to find a direct object reference used as a value to a parameter, manipulate it, and access information that should normally not be seen.

Log in to your PortSwigger account and navigate to the following URL: https://portswigger.net/web-security/access-control/lab-insecure-direct-object-references. Ensure Burp Suite is running and sending traffic through either Firefox or the Burp Suite browser.

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Dr. Sunny Wear

Dr. Sunny Wear is a web security architect and penetration tester. She provides secure coding classes, creates software, and performs penetration testing on web/API and mobile applications. Sunny has more than 25 years of hands-on software programming, architecture, and security experience and holds a Doctor of Science in Cybersecurity. She is a content creator on Pluralsight, with three courses on Burp Suite. She is a published author, a developer of mobile apps such as Burp Tool Buddy, and a content creator on courses related to web security and penetration testing. She regularly speaks and holds classes at security conferences such as Defcon, Hackfest, and BSides.
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