Story of my hacking Dutch Government

Hello guys! My name is Tuhin Bose (@tuhin1729). I am currently working as a Chief Technology Officer at Virtual Cyber Labs. In this write-up, I am going to share my experience of hacking Dutch Government. If you want any help, you can connect with me on Instagram: @tuhin1729

So without wasting time, let’s start:

At first, I was so confused because there are more than 1000 domains within the scope. But later I took a domain randomly from the list and started hunting on it. After 2–3 days of hunting, I started testing on https://rijkswaterstaat.archiefweb.eu/

In my initial recon process, I came across a parameter subsite. I quickly checked XSS there using a simple payload: “><script>alert(document.domain)</script>

And guess what! The payload was executed successfully.

Final URL: https://rijkswaterstaat.archiefweb.eu/?subsite=bewustbodemgebruik%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(document.domain)%3C/script%3E

I quickly made a proof of concept and reported it to them. After a month, I got a reply from them:

Timeline:

15/10/20 — Reported Vulnerability

16/10/20 — Confirmed the vulnerability and informed the
organization.

03/12/20 — Resolved

04/12/20 — Got appreciation as Dutch Government T-shirt

04/01/21 — T-shirt delivered to my home

Later, I got more than 10 T-shirts from them and it was really a nice experience :)

If you want to learn bug bounty, you can ping me on Instagram: @tuhin1729

If you want to learn hacking you can enroll to our course: https://virtualcyberlabs.com

Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed this blog.