I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel

Re:I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel by zaroth on Saturday December 12, 2020 @05:24PM (#25402346)

That’s how I read it as well, almost too absurd to believe.

SetPassword and the parameters to the function are just username and newPassword.

I guess they assumed there was authentication happening before the request would even be served (pre-existing session).

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Re:I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel by loa_in_ on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:03PM (#25402637)

A good example of how security by obscurity can fail. Just because there's no url to an endpoint exposed doesn't mean it shouldn't be hardened

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Re:I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel by judge2020 on Saturday December 12, 2020 @08:19PM (#25403416)

I think they assumed it was already hardened by requiring authentication, but didn't do any testing (or were unaware of this endpoint being a thing in the software they use).

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