Ask me anything about your lessons or your code.
“What is a port?” · “Why is my code erroring?”
The app you are testing is mostly a thin shell over an API doing all the real work.
How Modern APIs Work
The app you are testing is mostly a thin shell over an API doing all the real work.
The OWASP API Top 10
A short list of the API bugs that actually pay, ranked by how often they land.
Broken Object Level Authorization
Change one number in the request and read every other customer's data. That is BOLA.
API Authentication Flaws
A token the server forgot to verify, a key committed to GitHub, a login with no rate limit.
Testing an API
No UI to click, just endpoints. Here is how you find them and work them methodically.