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Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials
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Bug Bounty Hunting Essentials

by Carlos A. Lozano, Shahmeer Amir
November 2018
Beginner to intermediate
270 pages
7h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Bypassing the Shopify admin authentication

On September 28th, 2017, a bug bounty hunter called uzsunny reported a vulnerability on Shopify.

They got admin access by creating two different accounts that share the same email address. The application had the option to define profiles for each user. In this case, Shopify had a profiled called collaborator, which had more privileges than normal user accounts. To get these privileges, the user needed to request the collaborator profile. When the application collaborated with the account, the other account, which was different, automatically got the same privileges. What's more, the other account had access to the sites controlled by the other account with the same privileges.

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