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Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

By : Carlos A. Lozano, Shahmeer Amir
Book Image

Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

By: Carlos A. Lozano, Shahmeer Amir

Overview of this book

Bug bounty programs are the deals offered by prominent companies where-in any white-hat hacker can find bugs in the applications and they will have a recognition for the same. The number of prominent organizations having this program has increased gradually leading to a lot of opportunity for Ethical Hackers. This book will initially start with introducing you to the concept of Bug Bounty hunting. Then we will dig deeper into concepts of vulnerabilities and analysis such as HTML injection, CRLF injection and so on. Towards the end of the book, we will get hands-on experience working with different tools used for bug hunting and various blogs and communities to be followed. This book will get you started with bug bounty hunting and its fundamentals.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Open redirects in the wild


Open redirects are a security flaw in the web app or web URL that lead to the failure of authentication of URLs.

Shopify theme install open redirect

On December 14th, 2015, a bug bounty hunter called blikms reported an open redirect vulnerability on Shopify, an e-commerce service that provides easy ways to create an online store for people who are not specialized in development.

In Shopify's features, you can buy themes to modify an aspect of the store. blinkms discovered the vulnerability on this module.

The following URL was found to be vulnerable:

https://app.shopify.com/services/google/themes/preview/supply--blue?domain_name=example.com 

Using this link, you could modify the redirection stored in the domain_name parameter to other sites without validation. The vulnerability could be exploited to redirect the user to malicious sites or to steal the OAuth token in the website.

Note

If you want to read more about this bug, visit https://hackerone.com/reports/101962.

 

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