October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
5h 49m
English
In 2013, I disclosed a very serious CSRF vulnerability to the online payment giant PayPal. This vulnerability allowed a malicious attacker to silently change the number of a PayPal user, thus aiding the attacker to take over the account through the password reset option.
Well, I was checking my PayPal balance sheet back then and as soon as I tried to log into the web application of PayPal, I was prompted with an option to add and confirm a number with my PayPal account as seen in the following screenshot:

As soon as I clicked on Send Code a one-time password was received on my number, and looking ...
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