Background
Business logic abuse is a subtle form of abuse – often perpetrated on websites. Traditionally, bad actors have exploited websites by breaking into the security infrastructure of the website (the firewall or VPN). Other attacks involve finding errors in the software of the website to break into the website. Because websites and other software vendors have gotten better at hardening their security infrastructure and identifying software errors, online criminals have gotten more sophisticated in their attacks. In the next level of attack – attacking the business logic of the website – the bad guy uses the legitimate pages of the website to perpetrate his or her fraud.
Business logic abuse results from the perpetrator discovering a flaw in the business logic and exploiting that for illicit gain.
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