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by HalcyonCowboy 320 days ago
Brilliant write up, glad you made the effort.

Trying to understand better where the JWT vulnerability was here, you said: “So you could log in with my username and password, grab the JWT, and then send that along with your request.”

Am I understanding here that you weren’t validating the sub/userId or role in the JWT? I.e. any user with a valid JWT could hit the admin api endpoints? Or did I misunderstand that?