The newest Bug Bounty resources are on the Bug Bounty page. For a reading order instead of a date order, see the Bug Bounty learning path.
| Date Added | Link | Excerpt |
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| 2026-06-12 2026 | Introducing Posture Issues: Transform Security Findings into Actionable Outcomes beginner 4 min read Secrets | Framework for managing security debt, Posture Issues consolidate findings within a single domain like vulnerabilities or secrets, allowing teams to tackle backlogs, meet compliance SLAs, and measure long-term security posture improvements. This structured approach, driven by Posture Policies, transforms noisy lists into manageable projects for continuous security hygiene and hardening. → wiz.io |
| 2026-06-12 2026 | Enabling Proper PCI Testing with Internal Penetration Tests intermediate 7 min read | Tooling for internal penetration testing (IPT) that supports PCI DSS v4.0.1 requirements, addressing expanded scope including cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, and build pipelines like GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. This IPT approach emphasizes understanding cardholder data flows, segmentation controls, and unique access paths into the CDE, testing not only network segmentation but also authentication and authorization. Deliverables include executive summary reports and detailed documentation of tested segments, IP addresses, and open ports. → bishopfox.com |
| 2026-06-11 2026 | AI is drowning software maintainers in junk security reports beginner 4 min read | Reference detailing the challenges AI-assisted vulnerability research poses to software maintainers and open source projects, highlighting issues of report duplication, low quality findings, and increased triage overhead, as seen with projects like cURL and strategies employed by GitHub and HackerOne to filter noise and improve signal quality. → helpnetsecurity.com |
| 2026-06-11 2026 | My Manual Testing Workflow for Bug Bounty (Video & Discussion) intermediate | This content discusses a manual testing workflow for bug bounty hunting. It covers strategies and techniques employed by the presenter to identify vulnerabilities. The focus is on practical methods for manual testing in the bug bounty context. |
| 2026-06-11 2026 | AI Agents vs Humans: Who Wins at Web Hacking in 2026? beginner 10 min read AI | Survey comparing AI agents (Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro) to humans for web hacking tasks. The study found AI agents excel at directed challenges, solving 9 of 10 lab environments modeled after real-world vulnerabilities like SSRF and authentication bypass. However, performance and cost-effectiveness degrade significantly in broader, less directed scenarios, where they struggle with prioritization and deep investigation. While AI demonstrates strong pattern recognition and multi-step reasoning, it lacks the creative problem-solving and tool utilization of human testers, particularly in discovering vulnerabilities like exposed directories or secret exposure in public repositories. → wiz.io |
| 2026-06-11 2026 | From Detection to Remediation: It’s Time to Rethink AppSec Around Exploitability and Root Cause Fixes intermediate 4 min read API Sec | Tool that connects validated runtime vulnerabilities to source code, enabling root cause fixes. It traces issues from the Wiz Attack Surface Scanner (ASM) and Wiz Code's SCA scanner through a Code-to-Cloud Pipeline, showing lineage from source to runtime. Features include one-click pull request generation and AI assistance for remediation guidance via Mika AI. The tool also consolidates vulnerabilities by their source-mapped code finding to address security debt and improve posture. → wiz.io |
| 2026-06-10 2026 | How GraphQL Mutation Aliasing Led to a $12,500 DoS Bug in HackerOne’s Account Recovery Flow intermediate GraphQL | A researcher discovered a Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability in HackerOne's account recovery flow, stemming from an overlooked GraphQL mutation aliasing behavior. This flaw allowed attackers to exploit the system by making repeated, resource-intensive requests. The vulnerability was reported and addressed, with the researcher being awarded a $12,500 bug bounty for their findings, highlighting a critical security issue that could have impacted user access. → infosecwriteups.com |
| 2026-06-08 2026 | Introducing Penetration Test Findings: Unified Offensive Security in Wiz news 3 min read | Tool for unifying penetration test findings from HackerOne, third-party audits, internal exercises, and AI assessments like Mythos and Claude. It leverages the Wiz Security Graph to enrich findings with cloud context, automate ownership mapping, and facilitate AI-powered triage and remediation guidance through Mika AI and the Green Agent. → wiz.io |
| 2026-06-08 2026 | Beyond Findings: Connecting Exploitable Risk to Cloud Context with Wiz and HackerOne news 3 min read | Integration connecting HackerOne findings to Wiz, enriching exploitability data with cloud context on the Wiz Security Graph. This partnership allows security teams to visualize the full blast radius of vulnerabilities, understand pivot paths to sensitive data, and prioritize remediation effectively by mapping infrastructure, identities, and data flows. Pen test and bug bounty program managers can continue their workflows in HackerOne while security teams gain cloud-enriched visibility within Wiz to accelerate incident response and compliance. → wiz.io |
| 2026-06-08 2026 | Ransacking your password reset tokens intermediate 18 min read AuthZ | Library for Ruby on Rails applications that, in its default configuration, allows sensitive data exfiltration and application compromise through powerful conditional parameters. This enables character-by-character brute-forcing of arbitrary attributes on associated database objects, similar to blind SQL injection techniques. While older versions of Sequelize and Hasura (GraphQL Engine) are also vulnerable to similar attacks, Ransack 4.0.0 now enforces explicit allow lists for searchable attributes and associations to mitigate this risk. |
| 2026-06-08 2026 | Introducing Insights: self-serve reporting for security teams beginner 3 min read | Dashboard offering self-serve reporting for security teams, providing key performance metrics and trends for bug bounty programs. It enables clear explanation of outcomes, spotting trends in volume, severity, and vulnerability patterns, tracking review and remediation throughput to prevent bottlenecks, and exporting charts for stakeholder updates. This allows teams to prove ROI, control spend, demonstrate security performance, and grow their researcher community without manual reporting cycles. → intigriti.com |
| 2026-06-08 2026 | Intigriti Bug Bytes #236 - May 2026 🚀 news 7 min read RCE | Library. This collection of Intigriti Bug Bytes #236 features diverse application security content, including a $148K RCE in Google Cloud, the security implications of public Google API keys for Gemini, two Chrome Sanitizer API bypasses, and a one-click account takeover from a sanitized name field. It also highlights a new Burp Suite extension called Intigriti Quick Scope (IQS), Rust binary decompiler Oxidizer, and discussions on NIS2 compliance and AI's role in security triage and bug reporting. Additionally, it covers SQL injection, client-side path traversal, Service Worker bugs, Entra ID automation, microservices vulnerabilities, cPanel zero-days, and Supabase misconfigurations. → intigriti.com |
| 2026-06-08 2026 | Marketer by day, bug hunter by night. Interview with Stefan Goossens (G0053) beginner 7 min read | Interview with Stefan Goossens (G0053), an independent security researcher and marketing professional, detailing his bug bounty journey. Goossens discusses his progression from basic cross-site scripting and SQL injections to business logic vulnerabilities, fueled by a puzzle-solving mindset and leveraging tools like Caido. He highlights the importance of program responsiveness, shares insights on community collaboration, and notes his skepticism towards AI-driven bug hunting, preferring AI to augment rather than replace manual efforts in discovering vulnerabilities. → intigriti.com |
| 2026-06-08 2026 | Marketer by day, bug hunter by night. Interview with Stefan Goossens (G0053) beginner 7 min read | Interview with Stefan Goossens (G0053) discusses his journey into bug bounty hunting, highlighting his first cross-site scripting (XSS) bug on a Red Bull program and his preference for business logic vulnerabilities. Goossens shares his workflow, utilizing Caido and self-hosted note-taking tools, and expresses skepticism about AI's role in bug hunting, preferring its use as a manual workflow enhancer. He also critiques bug bounty programs for slow response times and outdated scope information, emphasizing the importance of responsiveness and clear program documentation for effective security research. → intigriti.com |
| 2026-06-08 2026 | The Most Dangerous Security Bug Is the One That Feels Like a Feature beginner | This article argues that the most dangerous security bugs are those that appear to be legitimate features. Such vulnerabilities are difficult to detect because they don't immediately trigger red flags. The author uses the example of a single click potentially compromising a developer's entire identity to illustrate this point, emphasizing that seemingly benign actions can have catastrophic security consequences if not properly scrutinized. → infosecwriteups.com |
| 2026-06-08 2026 | Hack the AI agent: Build agentic AI security skills with the GitHub Secure Code Game beginner 6 min read AI | Library for learning agentic AI security skills by exploiting and fixing intentionally vulnerable code. Season 4 of the GitHub Secure Code Game places participants in ProdBot, a simulated AI assistant, to discover vulnerabilities mirroring real-world risks like goal hijacking and tool misuse. The game progresses through five levels, introducing capabilities like bash command execution, web browsing, tool integration, and multi-agent workflows, allowing players to practice identifying and mitigating threats akin to CVE-2026-25253. → github.blog |
| 2026-06-08 2026 | Bypassing Administrator Protection by Abusing UI Access intermediate 18 min read AuthZ | Writeup detailing 5 bypasses of Windows Administrator Protection, specifically through the abuse of UI Access. This feature, intended to secure UAC boundaries, could be circumvented by processes granted special permissions to bypass UIPI restrictions. The research highlights how accessibility applications, requiring UI Access to function with elevated processes, could be exploited by lower-integrity processes. The identified bypasses, now fixed, demonstrated how UI Access combined with specific integrity levels could lead to privilege escalation, impacting administrator and even system processes. → projectzero.google |
| 2026-06-08 2026 | A Deep Dive into the GetProcessHandleFromHwnd API advanced 14 min read AuthZ | Library exploring the `GetProcessHandleFromHwnd` API, tracing its evolution from an `oleacc.dll` function utilizing window hooks and shared memory for handle duplication in Vista, to a `win32kfull.sys` kernel function (`NtUserGetWindowProcessHandle`) in Windows 10. This analysis reveals discrepancies between API documentation and actual implementation, including changes to UI Access requirements and the move to direct kernel-level process opening, impacting how UAC bypasses and inter-process communication are handled. → projectzero.google |
| 2026-06-08 2026 | C/C++ checklist challenges, solved intermediate 14 min read | Library offers a walkthrough of C/C++ security checklist challenges, detailing an `inet_ntoa` global buffer vulnerability in a Linux `ping` program and a Windows driver registry handler exploit. This exploit leverages a missing `RTL_QUERY_REGISTRY_TYPECHECK` flag and an attacker-controlled registry path to achieve a kernel write primitive, escalating from local denial of service. The library also introduces a Claude skill, `c-review`, to transform the checklist into LLM-executable bug-finding prompts. → blog.trailofbits.com |
| 2026-05-30 2026 | Adobe expands bug bounty program to incentivize AI security research| Adobe Security Blog news 2 min read | Program announcement detailing Adobe's expanded bug bounty initiative to incentivize AI security research. It introduces an 'AI Bonus Tier' with rewards up to $15,000 for critical AI-related vulnerabilities. The scope now includes specific AI features across web applications like Acrobat AI Assistant, Firefly Image Models, and Photoshop AI Assistant, along with explicit guidance on AI vulnerability classes such as prompt injection and model abuse. Future expansion will cover mobile and desktop products. |
| 2026-05-17 2026 | AI Generated Bug Reports Overwhelm Bug Bounty Programs Forcing Suspensions and Triage Changes news 5 min read | Survey of AI's impact on bug bounty programs, detailing how generative AI tools like Anthropic's Mythos are overwhelming platforms such as HackerOne and Bugcrowd with low-quality submissions. This surge, marked by a 76% increase in reports but a stable 25% legitimate finding rate, has forced programs like Curl and Nextcloud to suspend operations due to triage overload. Platforms are responding by implementing agentic validation and stricter evidence standards to filter noise and preserve signal quality amidst the evolving bug bounty economics. |
| 2026-04-30 2026 | H-mmer/pentest-agents: Autonomous bug-bounty framework for Claude Code — 40 specialist agents, exploit-chain builder, writeup search, and live HackerOne/Bugcrowd integration. news 7 min read AI | Library for autonomous bug-bounty hunting, supporting Claude Code and six other AI coding tools with 50 specialist agents and 26 commands. It features exploit-chain building, semantic writeup search via FAISS, live HackerOne and Bugcrowd integration, and autonomous hunt loops. The framework includes pre-rendered bundles for various AI tools and an installer for project-scoped or global integration, with comprehensive backup and restore mechanisms. |
| 2026-04-29 2026 | Bug bounty isnt dead but the old model is breaking beginner 7 min read | Analysis of the bug bounty model's evolution, discussing the impact of AI on report generation and validation costs, leading to programs like IBB pausing submissions and curl removing payouts. It highlights the shift from incentivized disclosure to expected disclosure, with a potential focus on more targeted rewards and better security outcomes rather than sheer report volume. → aikido.dev |
| 2026-04-23 2026 | AI Sparks Bug-Bounty Surge in Crypto but Low-Quality Reports Grow news 3 min read | Analysis of AI's impact on crypto bug bounties reveals a 900% submission surge, leading to increased noise and false positives. Tools like curl's creator Daniel Stenberg have ceased programs due to AI-generated "slop." HackerOne reported an 7% rise in valid submissions in 2025. Cosmos Labs and Komodo Platform are adapting by tightening scoring, prioritizing trusted researchers, and exploring defensive AI for triage to manage the influx of low-quality reports and maintain program sustainability. |
| 2026-04-22 2026 | Whos Really to Blame When a White Hat Goes Gray? news 4 min read | Writeup exploring the ethical considerations of vulnerability disclosure programs, questioning who bears responsibility when a researcher, frustrated by a company's slow or dismissive process, publicly releases exploit code. It argues that while releasing exploit code prematurely is unethical due to potential harm to users, companies also have a duty of care to foster credible, fair, and respectful disclosure processes to encourage responsible disclosure and prevent vulnerabilities from being weaponized. |
| 2026-04-22 2026 | The Unofficial HackerOne Disclosure Timeline news | The Unofficial HackerOne Disclosure Timeline |
| 2026-04-22 2026 | GraphQL - PortSwigger Lab Writeup intermediate 2 min read | Writeup detailing GraphQL vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques. It covers bypassing introspection query regex validation, brute-forcing logins using aliases to circumvent rate limiting, and performing CSRF by converting requests to `x-www-form-urlencoded`. The entry also demonstrates how to find hidden GraphQL endpoints using directory fuzzing with Gobuster. |
| 2026-04-22 2026 | AI Vulnerability Deep Dive: Prompt Injection (Bugcrowd) intermediate | AI Vulnerability Deep Dive: Prompt Injection (Bugcrowd) → bugcrowd.com |
| 2026-04-22 2026 | A Guide to the Hidden Threat of Prompt Injection (Bugcrowd) beginner | A Guide to the Hidden Threat of Prompt Injection (Bugcrowd) → bugcrowd.com |
| 2026-04-22 2026 | Writeups for Hack The Box Bug Bounty CTF 2025 news | Writeups for Hack The Box Bug Bounty CTF 2025 |
| 2026-04-22 2026 | Bug-Bounty-Methodology: JWT and Other Vulnerability Classes intermediate | Bug-Bounty-Methodology: JWT and Other Vulnerability Classes |
| 2026-04-22 2026 | Bug Bounty Writeups: Available Programs and Writeups news 2 min read | Writeups collection featuring bug bounty programs and detailed writeups on various vulnerabilities, including XSS, CSRF, LFI, SQL injection, IDOR, 2FA bypass, SSRF, RCE, XXE, insecure deserialization, business logic flaws, SSTI, directory traversal, WebSockets attacks, cache poisoning, and information disclosure. It also lists specific techniques and bypasses for WAFs and SQL injection. |
| 2026-04-22 2026 | Awesome Google VRP Writeups news 20 min read | Writeups from the Google VRP Bug Bounty program offer detailed insights into real-world vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques. These entries cover a spectrum of security issues, including remote command execution in Google Cloud products, IDOR vulnerabilities, privilege escalation chains, cross-site scripting (XSS) in various Google services like IDX and Gmail, and client-side RCE in Google Web Designer. Specific CVEs like CVE-2025-12080 and CVE-2025-4613 are mentioned, alongside vulnerabilities in Gemini, Looker, and Apigee. |
| 2026-04-22 2026 | AI Sparks Bug-Bounty Surge in Crypto but Low-Quality Reports Grow news 3 min read | Analysis of AI's impact on bug bounty programs reveals a 900% submission volume increase, leading to noise and false positives for protocols like Cosmos Labs and Komodo Platform. This trend, observed with tools like curl and platforms like HackerOne, necessitates more stringent triage and verification workflows, with potential solutions including defensive AI for filtering reports and prioritizing trusted researchers. The challenge lies in balancing AI-driven discovery with manageable review workloads. |
| 2026-04-20 2026 | Meta and PortSwigger drive offensive security further to find what others miss news | Library. This partnership between Meta Bug Bounty and PortSwigger integrates Meta’s bug bounty program with Burp Suite Professional, aiming to enhance vulnerability discovery and researcher skills. Selected HackerPlus Silver league researchers receive Burp Suite Professional licenses to leverage its technical capabilities alongside Meta's collaborative program, fostering improved tooling and education for the security community. → helpnetsecurity.com |
| 2026-04-19 2026 | Bug-bounty Writeups Repository — fardeen-ahmed intermediate | Bug-bounty Writeups Repository — fardeen-ahmed |
| 2026-04-19 2026 | Top Bugs That Actually Paid Bounties in 2025 beginner | Top Bugs That Actually Paid Bounties in 2025 |
| 2026-04-16 2026 | PayloadsAllTheThings: Server Side Request Forgery beginner 7 min read SSRF | Reference detailing Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities, including methodologies for bypassing filters, exploiting localhost access via IPv6 notation, domain redirects, CIDR, rare addresses, encoded IPs, URL parsing discrepancies, PHP filter_var(), and the JAR scheme. It covers exploitation via URL schemes, blind exploitation, and upgrading to XSS, referencing tools like swisskyrepo/SSRFmap, tarunkant/Gopherus, In3tinct/See-SURF, teknogeek/SSRF-Sheriff, assetnote/surf, dwisiswant0/ipfuscator, and Horlad/r3dir. The entry also explores accessing cloud metadata, leaking files, network discovery, and sending packets to services for RCE. |
| 2026-04-16 2026 | BugHunterMethodology: A Comprehensive Bug Bounty Methodology beginner | Methodology offering a structured bug bounty approach, including web app reconnaissance, a comprehensive workflow for identifying, analyzing, and exploiting vulnerabilities, detailed checklists, common payloads, and bypass techniques. It also features tricks and advanced methods to enhance bug hunting efficiency and effectiveness. |
| 2026-04-16 2026 | PortSwigger's Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2025 beginner 5 min read | Reference listing the top 10 web hacking techniques of 2025, curated by an expert panel from community nominations. Techniques include Parser Differentials, Playing with HTTP/2 CONNECT, XSS-Leak, Next.js cache poisoning, Cross-Site ETag Length Leak, SOAPwn (RCE via HttpWebClientProtocol flaw), Unicode normalization attacks like "Lost in Translation," blind SSRF visibility techniques, ORM leaks, and "Successful Errors" for blind server-side template injection. The analysis highlights trends in side-channel attacks and new exploitation primitives. → portswigger.net |
| 2026-04-16 2026 | Automating Bug Bounties with Nuclei intermediate 5 min read | Library for automating bug bounties using Nuclei, focusing on creating custom templates for targeted scanning, custom reporting, adapting to evolving threats, building PoCs, and retesting vulnerabilities. It details template structure, fuzzing techniques for vulnerability detection, and debugging features like validation and verbose output. Examples include templates for CVE-2023-32315, Nginx workflows, and WordPress XSS. |
| 2026-04-16 2026 | Advanced Techniques & Use Cases of Nuclei for Bug Bounty advanced | Advanced Techniques & Use Cases of Nuclei for Bug Bounty → osintteam.blog |
| 2026-04-16 2026 | Crafting Your Bug Bounty Methodology: A Complete Guide beginner 9 min read | Guide for beginner bug bounty hunters detailing how to craft a personalized methodology. It emphasizes mastering fundamentals like HTTP and OWASP Top 10, identifying personal strengths (e.g., front-end development for XSS, database knowledge for SQLi), and continuous practice. The guide suggests focusing on specific vulnerability classes or target types, leveraging tools like proxies, and developing reusable checklists or scripts to improve efficiency and find unique vulnerabilities. → intigriti.com |
| 2026-04-16 2026 | Top Vulnerabilities for Pentest & Bug Bounty in 2025 beginner 7 min read | Library of advanced web security techniques for bug bounty hunters in 2025, focusing on vulnerabilities beyond basic payloads. It details methodologies for Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), including blind XSS and cross-domain implications, and Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF), emphasizing in-depth analysis of application functionality and local environment replication, advising against tools like Burp Collaborator for testing. The resource also covers Path Traversal, stressing URL encoding mastery and API call testing, and Web Cache Deception, highlighting the identification of sensitive data endpoints, testing file extensions, and analyzing caching headers for exploitation opportunities. |
| 2026-04-10 2026 | Intigriti: Exploiting JWT vulnerabilities — advanced exploitation guide advanced 11 min read API Sec JWT | Guide detailing advanced exploitation techniques for JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), covering vulnerabilities arising from misconfigurations and improper input validation. It explains how flaws in handling the 'none' algorithm, missing signature validation, algorithm confusion attacks, and JWK spoofing (including CVE-2018-0114) can lead to authentication bypasses and injection attacks, emphasizing the importance of secure implementation practices. → intigriti.com |
| 2026-04-10 2026 | Writeups - Pentester Land intermediate | Writeups - Pentester Land |
| 2026-04-10 2026 | The Unfiltered 2025 Guide to Web Pentesting & Bug Bounties beginner | The Unfiltered 2025 Guide to Web Pentesting & Bug Bounties |
| 2026-04-10 2026 | Recon to Master: Complete Bug Bounty Checklist beginner Recon | Recon to Master: Complete Bug Bounty Checklist |
| 2026-04-10 2026 | Awesome Bug Bounty Tools - GitHub beginner 27 min read Recon XXE | Library of curated bug bounty tools for identifying vulnerabilities such as Command Injection, CORS Misconfiguration, Directory Traversal, Insecure Deserialization, and SQL Injection. This repository includes numerous subdomain enumeration utilities like Sublist3r, Amass, and Findomain, alongside port scanners like masscan and RustScan, and web screenshotting tools like EyeWitness and gowitness. It also features technology identification tools such as Wappalyzer and whatweb, and content discovery tools like gobuster and feroxbuster. |
| 2026-04-10 2026 | How I'd Start Bug Bounty Hunting in 2026: A 90-Day Plan beginner | How I'd Start Bug Bounty Hunting in 2026: A 90-Day Plan |