5
Assessing Authorization Checks
This chapter covers the basics of authorization, including an explanation of how an application uses roles to determine user functions. Web penetration testing involves key assessments to determine how well the application validates functions assigned to a given role or individual user, and we will learn how to use Burp Suite to perform these tests.
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Testing for directory traversal
- Testing for Local File Inclusion (LFI)
- Testing for Remote File Inclusion (RFI)
- Testing for privilege escalation
- Testing for Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR)
Technical requirements
To complete the recipes in this chapter, you will need the following:
- OWASP Broken Web Applications ...
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