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In this post, I'd like to talk about multiple issues I found on a website owned by Kerala Public Service Commission . The issues here are otp bypass to achieve IDOR. For those who don't know what's IDOR, quoting from OWASP " Insecure Direct Object References occur when an application provides direct access to objects based on user-supplied input. As a result of this vulnerability attackers can bypass authorization and access resources in the system directly ". The site url is `https://mailer.psc.kerala.gov.in/KPSCAptitudeTest/home`, which is a temporary site they've opened for the Aptitude Exam for engineering students. How the site works Students can register for the aptitude exam by providing following details :  College ID card number,  Mobile Number, Email, Name, Address, College Name, Desired Center Name and the photographs of themself, signature and id card. Question : This is for engineering students. What I'm doing there? ...

Hello everyone, I'm back with another write up. This time it's a Google bug. YouTube is Google's video sharing site and a great place to explore. As a bug hunter, you can spend hours or days or even weeks in YouTube without hesitation. I always used YouTube to play some music when I worked as a developer last year. When I started bug hunting, I tried YouTube multiple times and can't find any. Then I started hunting on another google services. After hunting for more than 2 hours, I found a bug on one of Google's acquisition. According to  Google , a video PoC is required only if it is contributing something that the text can't. But I'm a great fan of videos and my first bug to google (duplicate) contained a 15min video 😎. I recorded a video of that bug I found and visited YouTube to upload it. when I clicked upload button, I noticed something strange aside it, something new. It looked like a message button. But then, the upload page has loaded ...

In this post, I am going to share with you how I was able to claim any email address in facebook business manager including admin@facebook.com. Weird.. isn't it? Yes. But according to facebook team, this is an intentional behavior. Again Weird... Lol!!! Ok let's come to the point. It happened about 6 months ago. While I was testing for bugs in facebook. I decided to take Facebook Business Manager as that day's target.  If you don't know what Facebook Business Manager is, "Facebook Business Manager is a service offered by facebook 

Hello everyone, In a previous post, I talked about XSS aka Cross Site Scripting. Hope you all got a basic knowledge now. In this post, I am giving you more information on XSS with a hands on training on the Google XSS Game. You can find a video on how to solve this at the bottom of the page. At first, Google XSS Game is a training platform provided by google to practice XSS. It consist of 6 levels and in each level, you have to execute a JavaScript alert in order to advance to next level. In each level, you'll be provided with different problems and you've to execute the alert using different techniques in each level. This will help you to understand various methods than can be used to execute XSS in a web page. There are hundreds of such websites available which allow you to practice various types of vulnerabilities. So let's get started. Navigate to  https://xss-game.appspot.com . This is where the Google XSS Game is available. You'll see a page lik...

When searching for hacking tutorials or reading through write ups, definitely you will come across the term XSS. In this post, I am going to explain what is XSS, what are it's impacts and how to achieve it with few examples. XSS aka Cross Site Scripting is a vulnerability which allow the attacker to inject and execute JavaScript code on the target website. This allow attacker to log the victim details, make a phishing page, bypass csrf, get cookies and many more. XSS is of 2 types. Stored and Reflected. Stored XSS is the type of XSS when the user entered data is stored in the server and the displayed in any other page. For example parameters like name, place, about etc can be vulnerable to stored XSS. That said, fields like password are stored once and never retrieved or showed in future, hence it is not vulnerable to stored XSS. When this can be exploited? The developer isn't validating user inputs. The developer added certain validations but they are client side ...

Facebook Provide you the ability to create test accounts for white hat testing. You can create it by visiting the url  facebook.com/whitehat/accounts . Facebook wants you to test for security issues using test accounts only and if you're unable to reproduce an issue with a test account, then it is okay to use a real account you own or you have to get permission from the account owner. Adding Facebook implemented certain limitations for the test accounts. I stuck with the last one. Can't convert to a real user account. Ok let's try it. I tried for about a day in different ways like using the fake email at account recovery system and so on but failed. I was like And then I thought that I might find a way abusing facebook oauth system with test accounts. Navigated to few sites which allows login with facebook. But when I tried login with facebook, It shows an error. Oops!! again screwed. Then I decided to stop there and went to bed because it was 3 AM at night....

Facebook recently introduced a feature called Profile Picture Guard. It protect others from downloading your profile picture. If you want to know more about it, you can read it here  Profile Picture Guard | Facebook Help . When turning on Profile Picture Guard, Facebook assure you that no one else can download your profile picture. Really??? 😆😆😆 Never!!! I worked some time on it to see how can I bypass this restriction. Tried calculating the url to cdn but it requires a signature to access the file. Tried to view image and change dimensions and the result is negative. What's next? Think out of the Box. I think I should leave it and change my target first. Then I decided to test it from my another account to check is there a way to bypass it. Opened the profile picture and copied the url. Then I opened incognito to login to other account. Went to the url that I copied earlier and I was about to type my username and password in the login form at the top of page. Sudd...