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Lab 401 — InsightPulse — Broken Authorization on AI Chat Agent API
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Task: InsightPulse analytics platform with AI Chat Agent feature denied by permission profile; UI disables input and shows Access Restricted banner. Solution: Discover actual API endpoint /api/v1/chat/agent from chat.js, call it directly with curl bypassing client-side restriction — backend only checks authentication, not authorization.
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nodejsexpressbroken_access_controlhoneypot_decoyclient_side_restrictionai_chat_agentpermission_bypassapi_authorizationconfidential_dataowasp_a01
direct_api_accessdecoy_flag_evasionclient_side_restriction_bypassapi_endpoint_discovery_via_javascriptbroken_access_control_exploitation
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