SourceCodester Web-based Pharmacy Product Management System 1.0 is vulnerable to Incorrect Access Control, which allows low-privileged users to forge high privileged (such as admin) sessions and perform sensitive operations such as adding new users.
The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:
When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses: