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Broken access control

Users can see or do things their role should not allow.

Definition

It's the most common serious web risk: hidden buttons without server checks, admin pages open to normal users, or other users' data reachable by changing IDs.

In practice

A normal customer opens /admin by typing the URL, because the link was only hidden from the menu.

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