Laravel Security Guide: How to Fix These 6 Common Mistakes

Your Laravel app might be wide open to hackers — and you wouldn’t even know it.
In this video, I’m exposing 6 common Laravel security fails that developers make all the time, and exactly how you can fix them before it’s too late.

🚨 Here’s what we’ll cover:

The session bug that keeps attackers logged in even after a password reset.
How plain URLs can give anyone unlimited access to your files.
A dangerous route model binding mistake that leaks private data.
Why using user-provided filenames is a security disaster.
How raw IDs make it easy for hackers to find your users.
The simple Eloquent cast that keeps API keys encrypted in your database.

⚡ If you’re building with Laravel in 2025, you need to know these.
One mistake here could expose your entire application.

📌 Pro tip: Watch until the end — the last mistake is the one I see in almost every Laravel codebase.


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