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Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

You're reading from   Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials Quick-paced guide to help white-hat hackers get through bug bounty programs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788626897
Length 270 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shahmeer Amir Shahmeer Amir
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Carlos A. Lozano Carlos A. Lozano
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Preface 1. Basics of Bug Bounty Hunting 2. How to Write a Bug Bounty Report FREE CHAPTER 3. SQL Injection Vulnerabilities 4. Cross-Site Request Forgery 5. Application Logic Vulnerabilities 6. Cross-Site Scripting Attacks 7. SQL Injection 8. Open Redirect Vulnerabilities 9. Sub-Domain Takeovers 10. XML External Entity Vulnerability 11. Template Injection 12. Top Bug Bounty Hunting Tools 13. Top Learning Resources 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Salient features of a bug bounty report

Every bug bounty report is different in terms of its technical details but every report has some features and aspects that are common and generic, which provide extra insights on the vulnerability that was identified. The following are some pointers that you can take into account while writing bug bounty reports.

Clarity

The report should be clear and should not misguide the reader into thinking that the researcher is being pushy. The following is an example of a report that sounds unclear:

"I would like to report a very critical using which you can takeover user accounts and should be fixed ASAP."

However, a clear description may contain the following sentence:

"This...
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