How to Prevent IDOR Vulnerabilities in Django REST APIs An authenticated user changes /api/orders/42/ to /api/orders/43/ and reads someone else's order. No privilege escalation needed — the endpoint just returns it. This is IDOR in its simplest form, and it's endemic in Django REST Framework code because DRF makes it trivially easy to wire up a ModelViewSet that exposes every object in a table.
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