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Reflected XSS — Public Program

Reflected cross-site scripting on a public bug bounty program, triaged and rewarded within hours of testing.

Status
Triaged · Rewarded
Reported
2025

Impact

  • Unsanitised query parameter reflected into the DOM without encoding.
  • Allowed session-context script execution against authenticated users.
  • Fixed by the vendor with output encoding and a stricter CSP.

Timeline

  1. Hour 0

    Payload confirmed on a production endpoint.

  2. Hour 2

    Report submitted with a reproducible PoC.

  3. Same day

    Triaged, rewarded and remediated.

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Alham Rizvi

Offensive security researcher and penetration tester based in Mumbai. I break software for a living — memory corruption, kernel bugs, broken authorisation and prompt-level attacks against LLM systems — then write up exactly how it was done so defenders can reproduce it. 603+ technical writeups, six open-source tooling projects and a growing list of vendor-patched disclosures.

Focus areas

  • Exploit development & ROP
  • Linux kernel exploitation
  • Reverse engineering
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  • Active Directory attack paths
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