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How to Catch Broken Access Control Security Vulnerabilities in Code Review Part 2

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Feed Name: HackerOne Blog

Date Published: 2022-01-05

Date Updated: 2026-06-12

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This article reviews OWASP Broken Access Control categories 5–8, explaining how escalation of privilege, insecure session and password reset handling, metadata manipulation (e.g., editable JWTs or cookies), CORS misconfiguration, and force browsing lead to access control failures; it emphasizes code review, proper token/session management, and rate limiting as primary mitigations.

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