Business Logic vulnerabilities are flaws in the way an application enforces its workflows, rules, and processes — the “logic” that dictates how users interact with features and services.
Unlike technical vulnerabilities that exploit coding mistakes, these issues manipulate intended business processes in ways that benefit attackers, bypass restrictions, or disrupt the system’s normal behavior.
Business Logic Security Tests:
Bypassing Business Logic
Tests whether users can bypass intended business rules or workflows, such as skipping payment steps, ordering negative quantities, or modifying pricing through direct requests, tampering, or parameter manipulation.
Bypassing Controllers Hierarchy
Assesses whether attackers can bypass application-level controller hierarchies — like privilege escalation paths, restricted modules, or nested workflows — to access functions or data outside of their authorization level.