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You know that feeling when you’re manually testing for IDORs and your finger starts cramping from clicking “Send” so many times? Yeah, that was me last month. I was testing “MegaCorp,” a company with more endpoints than a spider has legs, and I realized manual testing was like trying to empty a swimming pool with a teaspoon. So I did what any lazy-but-brilliant hacker would do: I automated Burp Suite to do all the boring work while I drank coffee. ☕
It all started when I found myself testing the same pattern for the hundredth time: change user_id from 58432 to 58433, check response, yawn, repeat. My brain was turning to mush, and my coffee was getting cold. There had to be a better way!
Act 1: The Manual Madness 🤯
I started with MegaCorp’s API in the usual way:
GET /api/v3/users/58432/profile HTTP/2
Host: api.megacorp.com
Authorization: Bearer…