Remote code execution though vulnerability in Facebook Messenger for Windows (June 2024)
Pre-auth RCE in Messenger for Windows — one of Meta's largest recorded payouts.
Dmitry Lukyanenko · Vulnano ↗Real disclosed-bounty writeups — every entry states a real bounty, verified live against the article before it's listed. Dead links are dropped automatically.
44 writeups · $585.5k in bounties · checked today
Pre-auth RCE in Messenger for Windows — one of Meta's largest recorded payouts.
Dmitry Lukyanenko · Vulnano ↗Self-XSS chained through the payments flow into full Instagram/Facebook ATO.
Youssef Sammouda · ysamm.com ↗Second part of the legendary series — chaining bugs into account takeover.
Alaa Abdulridha · Medium ↗Broken access control exposing private posts and stories — $30,000.
Mayur Fartade · Medium ↗The classic: brute-forcing the password-reset rate limit to take over any account.
Laxman Muthiyah · thezerohack.com ↗FXAuth token abuse turns two clicks into a full Instagram account takeover.
Youssef Sammouda · ysamm.com ↗Full 2FA bypass on Facebook accounts — discovery through exploitation.
Bassem M Bazzoun · Medium ↗A stolen Datr cookie plus an AI chatbot escalates to full account takeover.
Youssef Sammouda · ysamm.com ↗CSRF on the SMS captcha flow — a forgotten protection worth $18,750.
Lokesh Kumar · Medium ↗Friends-only data leaks any user's email and phone — simple, elegant, paid big.
Saugat Pokharel · Medium ↗Recon-to-report walkthrough of a critical IDOR on a public SaaS program.
cyber security · Medium ↗CVE-2019-18426 — the road to remote code execution inside WhatsApp.
Gal Weizman · weizman.github.io ↗Deanonymization — tying hidden contact points back to real identities.
Lokesh Kumar · Medium ↗Deleting any video or Reel — a destructive action missing one authorization check.
Bassem Bazzoun · bugreader.com ↗Regression hunting: re-exploiting a 'fixed' IDOR through the fix itself.
bombon · Medium ↗Unprotected backup-code retrieval quietly defeats 2FA on Instagram and Meta accounts.
scriptshuva · Medium ↗Reading media from any Group's Notes — private content behind a missing check.
Raja Sudhakar · InfoSec Write-ups ↗Abusing self-hosted GitHub runners for code execution inside Meta's CI.
Mark Young · marcyoung.us ↗Trimming a stranger's private live video to reveal frames they never posted.
yaala · Medium ↗OAuth token leakage — a flow bug that hands out valid access tokens.
yaala · Medium ↗2FA bypass on a public program without ever passing the second factor.
mokhansec · Medium ↗IDOR in Campaign Planner — share links for any advertiser's campaign.
sancyty · Medium ↗Textbook IDOR on a Reddit endpoint — clean, reproducible, $5,000.
Roberto · InfoSec Write-ups ↗Stored XSS on Apple Developer — persistence + escalation explained.
Youssef Desouki · Medium ↗The legendary Protobuf-fiddling XSS — a masterclass in parameter digging.
Marin Moulinier · Medium ↗Revealing the admin of almost any Facebook Page through profile artifacts.
Sudip Shah · Medium ↗Privacy disclosure on Facebook Lite exposing user info across accounts.
RheyJuls · Medium ↗SSRF in a complex library exposing AWS keys — impact framing done right.
Roberto · InfoSec Write-ups ↗Methodical SSRF chain — one of the best-structured learning writeups.
thehackerish · thehackerish.com ↗Low-hanging fruit done right — impact writing that turned a small bug into $4k.
Raja Uzair Abdullah · Cybersecurity Write-ups ↗Abusing Call-To-Action buttons to launch internal deeplinks from the app.
Ashley King · ash-king.co.uk ↗Blind SQL injection through a GraphQL endpoint — $3,500 and 40 points.
InfoSec Write-ups · InfoSec Write-ups ↗Unauthorized balance top-up — a critical business-logic flaw, step by step.
0x0sadat · Medium ↗RCE in the first 15 minutes of recon — where to look first.
AmirhosseinBz · Medium ↗SSRF into a Zimbra mail instance → full credential dump.
Yasho · InfoSec Write-ups ↗Full ATO walkthrough with the author's complete thought process.
Imad Husanovic · Medium ↗Price-manipulation logic bug found by poking a single URL parameter.
Helmiriahi · InfoSec Write-ups ↗Critical stored XSS in Shopify Core — full report included.
Ashish Dhone · Medium ↗Rate-limit race on a private program — parallel-request methodology.
Manan Sanghvi · Medium ↗Host-header injection in password reset — cheap to test, found everywhere.
Ehtesham Ul Haq · InfoSec Write-ups ↗Email-verification flow abuse leading to full account takeover.
Faique · InfoSec Write-ups ↗Realistic first-bounty shape: private program, modest IDOR, real payout.
Tanishx0h · Cybersecurity Write-ups ↗OAuth account-fusion pre-takeover — a pattern worth checking on every program.
tinopreter · Medium ↗Unprotected Firebase database leaking OAuth tokens — full API-hacking series.
Aman Sharma · InfoSec Write-ups ↗Every bounty amount, date and link was verified against the original article before listing; articles are re-checked every 24 hours and dropped if they go offline. Content belongs to the original authors.