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Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 01:35:29 -0400 From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com> To: Robert Kugler <robert.kugler10@...il.com> Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk Subject: Re: PayPal.com XSS Vulnerability On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Robert Kugler <robert.kugler10@...il.com> wrote: > Hello all! > > I'm Robert Kugler a 17 years old German student who's interested in securing > computer systems. > > I would like to warn you that PayPal.com is vulnerable to a Cross-Site > Scripting vulnerability! > PayPal Inc. is running a bug bounty program for professional security > researchers. > > ... > Unfortunately PayPal disqualified me from receiving any bounty payment > because of being 17 years old... > > ... > I don’t want to allege PayPal a kind of bug bounty cost saving, but it’s not > the best idea when you're interested in motivated security researchers... Fortunately Microsoft and Firefox took a more reasonable positions for the bugs you discovered with their products. PCWorld and MSN picked up the story: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2039940/paypal-denies-teenager-reward-for-finding-website-bug.html and http://now.msn.com/paypal-denies-reward-to-robert-kugler-teen-who-found-bug-in-code. It is now news worthy to Wikipedia, where it will live forever under Criticisms (unfortunately, it appears PayPal does a lot of questionable things so its just one of a long list). Jeff _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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