Gain practical knowledge of application security and become a skilled bug bounty hunter by exploring a variety of related concepts, techniques, and tools

Key Features

• Become well-versed with the fundamentals of bug bounty hunting
• Gain hands-on experience of using a variety of tools for bug hunting
• Learn to write a bug bounty report by analyzing different vulnerabilities

Book Description

Bug bounty programs are initiatives adopted by companies as part of their vulnerability management strategy. This approach involves rewarding white-hat hackers for finding bugs in applications and other software vulnerabilities. The number of prominent organizations opting for this program has exponentially increased over time, creating more opportunities for ethical hackers.

This book starts by introducing you to the concept of bug bounty hunting and its fundamentals. You'll then delve into vulnerabilities and analysis concepts, such as HTML injection and CRLF injection, which will help you understand these attacks and be able to secure an organization from them. Toward later chapters, you'll gain practical knowledge of working with different tools for bug hunting. Finally, you'll explore a variety of blogs and communities you need to follow to further build on your skills.

By the end of this book, you will have developed the pentesting skills you need to become a successful bug bounty hunter.

What you will learn

• Hunt bugs in web applications
• Get up to speed with hunting bugs in Android applications
• Analyze the top 300 bug reports
• Discover bug bounty hunting research methodologies
• Understand different attacks such as cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and cross-site scripting (XSS)
• Get to grips with business logic flaws and understand how to identify them

Who this book is for

This book is for white-hat hackers or anyone who wants to understand bug bounty hunting and build on their penetration testing skills. Prior knowledge of bug bounty hunting is not required.

Table of Contents

1. Basics of Bug Bounty Hunting
2. How to write a Bug Bounty Report
3. SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
4. Cross Site Request Forgery
5. Application Logic Vulnerabilities
6. Cross Site Scripting Attacks
7. SQL Injection
8. Open Redirect Vulnerabilities
9. Sub Domain Takeover
10. XML External Entity Vulnerability
11. Template Injection
12. Top Bug Bounty Hunting tools
13. Top Learning resources