Authorization Testing

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: testing

Validate authorization failures including IDOR, privilege escalation, and missing access controls. Test by attempting unauthorized access with lower-privileged credentials. Use when testing CWE-639 (IDOR), CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management), CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization), CWE-284 (Improper Access Control), CWE-285 (Improper Authorization), or CWE-425 (Direct Request / Forced Browsing) findings.

What this skill does

Authorization Testing is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the testing sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/authorization-testing/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when testing CWE-639 (IDOR), CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management), CWE-862 (Missing Authorization), CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization), CWE-284 (Improper Access Control), CWE-285 (Improper Authorization), or CWE-425 (Direct Request / Forced Browsing) findings.

Who uses this skill

The Authorization Testing skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/authorization-testing
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/authorization-testing/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/authorization-testing/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/authorization-testing/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/authorization-testing/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\authorization-testing\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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