{
  "id": 15842617,
  "title": "🔓 IDOR / BOLA: How to Find the #1 API Vulnerability — and Actually Prove It",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/idor-bola-how-to-find-the-1-api-vulnerability-and-actually-prove-it",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-21T04:08:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/krishna_kumar_75bdf350b26/idor-bola-how-to-find-the-1-api-vulnerability-and-actually-prove-it-56dn"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) is a common API vulnerability where an application exposes an object reference without proper authorization checks. This allows unauthorized users to access, modify, or delete data belonging to other users. This guide explains what BOLA is, how it works, how to find it, and how to prove it without compromising real user data.",
  "summary": "Broken Object Level Authorization — IDOR, to most of us — is the single most common serious bug in modern APIs. It sits at #1 on the OWASP API Security Top 10 (2023) , and it's the one I watch sail past a scanner, past a code review, and straight into production, where it lives for years. Not because it's clever. Because it's boring : the application carefully checks who you are , and then…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}