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Filter bypass

Validation on one path and nothing at all on the other. That gap is where the payload goes.

2014

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XSS in Google Tag Manager via JSON Import

Google Tag Manager validated macro names in the web UI but not in the JSON container import path, so a payload smuggled through a file upload executed and earned a $5,000 bounty.

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Chrome backslash URLs and XSS filter bypass

Chrome resolves and executes a script URL written as http: followed by any number of backslashes. Firefox does not, and that difference can slip past pattern-matching XSS filters, closed by Chromium as wontfix.

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Seven PayPal Bugs, Zero Bounties

A 2014 run through PayPal's bug bounty scope: seven confirmed issues across paypal.com, financing.paypal.com, apps.paypal.com and the paypal-*.com family, all closed as duplicate or invalid.