IDOR and Broken Access Control — Roadmap Step & Resources
Accessing another user's data just by changing an ID or URL parameter
- Level: intermediate
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Cybersecurity Analyst / Ethical Hacker
Before this step
Study resources
- Access Control Vulnerabilities (Article) — PortSwigger's Web Security Academy definitive guide to IDOR and broken access control.
- IDOR Explained (Video) — A practical demonstration of exploiting insecure direct object references.
- Access Control Cheat Sheet (Article) — OWASP's own official cheat sheet on authorization and access control.
Part of
- Web Application Security — section
- Cybersecurity Analyst / Ethical Hacker roadmap — the full learning path