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Broken Access Control- Horizontal Privilege Escalation

PortSwigger- Broken Access Control | Horizontal Privilege Escalation

This blog delves into the recognition and utilization of “Horizontal Privilege Escalation,” a form of Broken Access Control vulnerability. Horizontal access controls are systems designed to limit access to resources to particular users. Through horizontal access controls, diverse users gain access to a subset of resources of a similar kind. If you’re interested in learning more about Broken Access Control, including another type known as vertical privilege escalation, check out our previous blog post titled “Vertical Access Control.”

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Vulnerabilities in Other Authentication Mechanism Portswigger

PortSwigger- Vulnerabilities in Other Authentication Mechanism

This blog focuses on the identification and exploitation of Authentication vulnerability on web applications. We will be providing a detailed walkthrough of PortSwigger’s labs which you can access on the PortSwigger. We have three categories here on this website. So in this blog, we will be covering the third one which is ‘Vulnerabilities in other Authentication mechanisms’. You guys can check out ‘Vulnerabilities in Password-based login’ and ‘Vulnerabilities in Multi-factor Authentication’.

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