User role can be modified in user profile

https://portswigger.net/web-security/access-control/lab-user-role-can-be-modified-in-user-profile

Let's login using the following credentials:

Username
Password

wiener

peter

Once logged in, we can change our email address.

Since we are proxying the traffic through Burp Suite, we can view the request by going to Proxy > HTTP History.

We can see that the response contains the following key:value pair:

"roleid":1

Let's forward this request to the Repeater and include the key:value pair in the body of the request.

Now we can access tot admin panel using our browser.

Let's delete the carlos user.

We have solved the lab.

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