Bug Bounty

I keep telling new hunters that PHP isn’t a bad language. It’s a language with a few defaults that will eat your lunch if you don’t understand them. After spending most of 2024 and 2025 reviewing WordPress plugin code for paying clients, I’m comfortable saying that roughly half of every PHP CVE I read traces back to three things: ==, $_REQUEST, and the rules PHP uses to convert one type into another. ...

Most of the WordPress, Joomla, and plugin bugs that hit my inbox last year had the same root cause: somebody wrote PHP without understanding how PHP handles types, sessions, or file paths. If you can’t read the buggy code, you can’t write a working exploit. And you definitely can’t tell the customer how to patch it. ...

Recon is the single highest-leverage activity in bug bounty hunting — but most beginners do it wrong. They run every tool, collect 200,000 subdomains, and then stare at the wall. This is the recon pipeline used by hunters who consistently hit the leaderboard. ...