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medium.com/@subadevanc (opens in a new tab)- 13 Oct 2026 · 3 min readHow I Found a DOM XSS on a Major Brand’s Community Site (and Got Swag for It)So this is my second writeup. First one was about my first paid bounty. This one is a bug I found around the same time, on a way bigger name. It didn’t…Read on Medium ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- 13 Oct 2026 · 4 min readKPMG CTF 2026 Web Challenges: The Dragon Warrior SolutionA comment buried in the favicon, an “encrypted” ID that wasn’t, and a JWT I got to sign myself. The Dragon Warrior was a 20-point web challenge — a Kung-Fu-Panda-themed SPA sitting…Read on Medium ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- 13 Oct 2026 · 8 min readFrom Hall of Fame to My First $250: How a VDP Hunter Finally Got PaidI’ve been around security stuff since 2022. But for most of that time I was just curious, not skilled. And every time someone brought up bug bounty, I’d think “nah, that’s too…Read on Medium ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- 12 Oct 2026 · 5 min readKPMG CTF 2026 Web Challenges: Onboardx SolutionMass assignment, a JWT key-confusion forge, and an old ImageMagick bug — stitched together into a root shell. Onboardx was a 30-point web challenge. It’s a self-service HR portal — you sign…Read on Medium ↗ (opens in a new tab)