
Learn a beginner-friendly bug bounty and website penetration testing course, covering platforms, subdomain discovery, and top bugs such as open redirect, misconfigurations, and EXIF metadata, plus submission workflow.
Explore bug bounty platforms and programs, register on the bug cloud platform, review in-scope targets, understand out-of-scope vulnerabilities, and learn about program rewards and validation timelines.
Identify subdomains for target websites using tools like VirusTotal and other subdomain finders, and learn why testing subdomains can reveal bugs.
Set up burp suite as a proxy with Mozilla Firefox to capture and modify http and https traffic. Install the burp certificate and configure the proxy switcher to intercept requests.
Discover how the absence of rate limits on the registration form creates a vulnerability that enables mass account creation, demonstrated with Burp Suite Intruder payloads and 100 automated signups.
Explores no rate limit on the login page, enabling brute forcing after wrong passwords; notes a read limit exists but lacks protective action, and outlines a bug report for remediation.
Explore a no rate limit vulnerability in the forgot password feature by hammering requests with Burp Suite Intruder, showing multiple emails and a proof-of-concept attack.
Discover a no rate limit vulnerability on forms triggering emails or sms, using burp suite to test an invitation form for bug bounty learning.
Explore blind XSS techniques by spreading payloads in forms and headers, observe admin notifications, and report findings using Access Center and Blind.com while learning blind HTML injection and detection workflows.
Identify open redirect vulnerabilities by crafting a URL parameter that redirects from a trusted site to an attacker site, testing login, registration, logout, and forgot password endpoints.
Identify session misconfiguration by verifying that sessions aren’t invalidated after password changes or resets across browsers. Use two browsers or incognito, and the forgot password flow to prove the vulnerability.
Identify exif metadata exposure vulnerabilities in image uploads, showing how gps location, date, and camera info can be exposed and how to test the vulnerability.
Welcome to Intro to Bug Bounty Hunting and Web Ethical Hacking, your introductory course into practical bug bounty hunting. Learn ethical hacking principles with your guide and instructor Vipin Panchal. Vipin Panchal is a full-time Bug Hunter and is mostly active on Bugcrowd, Hackerone, and Synack.
Vipin Panchal is in the top 5 hackers on the Indeed bug bounty program and secured thousands of companies.
This course will feature:
An overview of the top 5 vulnerabilities and how to find them
Real private bug submission report (POC) of every vulnerability.
Practical demonstration of every vulnerability
Bug hunting on live websites
Introduction to the bug bounty platforms
Introduction to bug bounty programs, how to read the scope
Notes & Disclaimer
This course will be updated regularly as new information becomes available. Vipin Panchal will be answering relevant questions as soon as possible. Please don't be discouraged if you don't immediately find a bug, this field is for resilient people committed to learning and figuring things out without much direction. Google will be your friend, and we encourage you to try things before immediately asking for a solution.
This course is meant for educational purposes only. This information is not to be used for black hat exploitation and should only be used on targets you have permission to attack.