Scenario 3 – Custom header fuzzing

In this scenario, we have an application running on PHP – custom_header.php. We request the following page from the server:

The server responds with an Unauthorized Access! message and two unknown headers – X-isAdmin: false and X-User: Joe (as we can see in the following screenshot):

The message from the server is as follows:

By observing these two custom headers, we can assume that the server is processing ...

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