How i was able to bypass parental pin of showmax

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abdoul gadiri balde

Showmax is an online subscription video on demand service which launched in South Africa on 19 August 2015. Showmax is employing a localisation strategy to take on established video on demand competitors with a focus on local content and partnerships with mobile telcos

After i saw a disclosed report in Twitter by @lordjerry0x01 https://hackerone.com/reports/1077520
I said wawww , 2000$. for parental pin bypass , let me bypass the pin too

As i have the same flow of @zseano, i hack the main app

The game begin
I started by create an account then clicking in each button to understand how the app works
after a few minute i found the parental control endpoint , now i added a code pin in kids profile so that, kids who dont has 18+ can’t watch adults serie

when browsing my burp history , i have found this https://www.showmax.com/eng/parentalControlForm/%2Fhome/true

i decide to take a look this url , because most of the time you can bypass the protecting by changing from True to false , false to true

when i copied and paste the url in kids profile , its disclose the parental pin

Steps To Reproduce:

login in to your showmax accountadd parental pinGo to https://www.showmax.com/eng/homeclick watch trilleryou will asked for parental pinenter this url in your brower https://www.showmax.com/eng/parentalControlForm/%2Fhome/trueyou will get the parental pin without confirming your passwordnow you change the parental pin , and you can bypass the password confirmation , for parental control

here the disclosed report https://hackerone.com/reports/1121169

thank you for taking your time to my report

you can found me in twitter https://twitter.com/moodiAbdoul

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