Ten Tips You Have to Know for WordPress Bug Bounty

WordPress is the most popular Content Management System (CMS) deployed on today’s Web. It is reported by W3Techs to share more than 60% of markets of CMS and exceed 40% of all websites. Its success seems mainly due to the well-built WordPress ecosystem that involves millions of third-party plugins and themes. But on the evil side, the authors of these add-ons have very different capabilities for secure coding, leaving a large volume of bugs in the WordPress ecosystem. To this end, hunting bugs across the WordPress codebase is becoming a fad. Many bug bounty platforms have been set to encourage more hunters' participation. In this write-up, I will show you ten useful tips to help you get an effective and efficient bug bounty journey for WordPress ecosystems.

1, choose your WordPress bug bounty platform wisely.

Till 2024, we can find four bug bounty platforms that publicly accept and reward WordPress vulnerability reports: Patchstack, WordFence, WPScan, and HackerOne. These platforms have very different guidelines and rules for rewarding, and thus you can take advantage of this difference to gain more bounties :-)

Patchstack: CVE for all the validated reports, and bug bounty via monthly…