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The Account Next Door

Lab for Broken Access Control & IDOR: Reading Other People's Data

Scenario

You're logged in and your account page is keyed by an id in the URL. The app fetches whatever id you ask for, without checking it belongs to you. Your id is 1004. See whose data lives one number over.

Objective

Change the id in a URL to read an account that isn't yours.

lab ~ the account next doornothing real runs
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