Everyone Knows About Broken Authorization – So Why Does It Still Work for Attackers?

Broken authorization is one of the most widely known API vulnerabilities. It features in the OWASP Top 10, AppSec conversations, and secure coding guidelines. Broken Object Level Authorization BOLA and Broken Function Level Authorization BFLA account for hundreds of API vulnerabilities every...

Pimcore Web2Print Tools Bundle "Favourite Output Channel Configuration" Missing Function Level Authorization

Summary The application fails to enforce proper server-side authorization checks on the API endpoint responsible for managing "Favourite Output Channel Configurations." Testing revealed that an authenticated backend user without explicitely lacking permissions for this feature was still able to...

GHSA-4WG4-P27P-5Q2R Pimcore Web2Print Tools Bundle "Favourite Output Channel Configuration" Missing Function Level Authorization

Summary The application fails to enforce proper server-side authorization checks on the API endpoint responsible for managing "Favourite Output Channel Configurations." Testing revealed that an authenticated backend user without explicitely lacking permissions for this feature was still able to...

CVE-2026-23494 Pimcore is Missing Function Level Authorization on "Static Routes" Listing

Pimcore is an Open Source Data & Experience Management Platform. Prior to 12.3.1 and 11.5.14, the application fails to enforce proper server-side authorization checks on the API endpoint responsible for reading or listing static routes. In Pimcore, static routes are custom URL patterns defined vi...

CVE-2025-65742

An unauthenticated Broken Function Level Authorization BFLA vulnerability in Newgen OmniDocs v11.0 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information and execute a full account takeover via a crafted API request...

CVE-2025-65742

An unauthenticated Broken Function Level Authorization (BFLA) vulnerability affects Newgen OmniDocs v11.0, as documented across NVD, Red Hat, ENISA EUVD, CNNVD and CVE records. The issue allows an attacker to access sensitive information and conduct a full account takeover through a crafted API r...

PT-2025-48073

The Primakon Pi Portal 1.0.18 API /api/V2/pp udfv admin endpoint, fails to perform necessary server-side validation. The administrative LoginAs or user impersonation feature is vulnerable to a access control failure. This flaw allows any authenticated low-privileged user to execute a direct PATCH...

CVE-2024-5685 Broken Function Level Authorization (BFLA) in snipe/snipe-it

Users with "User:edit" and "Self:api" permissions can promote or demote themselves or other users by performing changes to the group's memberships via API call.This issue affects snipe-it: from v4.6.17 through v6.4.1...

CVE-2024-36108 Multiple Broken Function-Level Authorization vulnerabilities in casgate

casgate is an Open Source Identity and Access Management system. In affected versions casgate allows remote unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information via GET request to an API endpoint. This issue has been addressed in PR 201 which is pending merge. An attacker could use id paramet...

XSS Marks the Spot: Digging Up Vulnerabilities in ChatGPT

With its widespread use among businesses and individual users, ChatGPT is a prime target for attackers looking to access sensitive information. In this blog post, Ill walk you through my discovery of two cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in ChatGPT and a few other vulnerabilities. When...

Navigating the Sea, Exploiting DigitalOcean APIs

Cloud service providers are now fundamental elements of internet infrastructure, granting organizations and individuals the ability to scale and efficiently store, manage, and process data. DigitalOcean is one such provider, well-regarded for its simplicity and developer-friendly platform, and...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API5:2023 Broken Function Level Authorization

Welcome to the 6th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API5:2023 Broken Function Level Authorization. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the...