The Bug Hunter’s Method

Free lesson 1 of 8 from Bug Bounty Mastery — The bugs that pay: SQLi, IDOR, XSS — found and exploited on a real vulnerable app in your lab.. No account, no card.

Get paid to break web apps — legally

Bug bounty is web hacking with a paycheck: you find real vulnerabilities in scoped targets and report them. The bread-and-butter bugs — injection, broken access control, XSS — are exactly what you'll drill here on a live vulnerable app.

🎯 Your target: "MegaShop"

Your lab range runs a real, database-backed web app at 10.0.0.7. Not static files — a genuine app with genuine bugs.

curl -s http://10.0.0.7/
curl -s "http://10.0.0.7/?p=home"     # endpoints: login, profile, search
🎯 Challenge: Map MegaShop's endpoints. What three features does it expose, and which take user input?
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curl -s "http://10.0.0.7/?p=home"
# login (?p=login, u/pw)  ·  profile (?p=profile&id=N)  ·  search (?p=search&q=TERM)

Every input is a potential bug: login → SQLi, profile id → IDOR/SQLi, search q → XSS. Three inputs, three findings.

⚖️ Only test targets you're authorized to (the lab, or programs with a public scope). Off-scope testing is illegal even "to help".

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