Like Employee of the Month but better, I’m excited to tell you about the three Crowd members that earned top spots on the April 2015 Hall of Fame. We have a ton of amazing researchers contributing solid bugs every day, but these three top performers earned the most Kudos points in Bugcrowd bounty programs from April 1 to April 30 2015. To thank them for their hard work, Bugcrowd is pleased to announce they’ll receive performance bonuses.

1. serializingme – 175 points – $2,500 bonus

2. greyhat – 127 points – $1,500 bonus

3. deepankerchawla – 94 points – $1,000 bonus

How does a researcher earn Kudos points? High severity bugs earn the most points, which is how serializingme got to the top – he made multiple high priority submissions. Bugcrowd’s general guidelines for vulnerability priorities and Kudos points are:

P1 – CRITICAL – 20 points
Vulnerabilities that cause a privilege escalation on the platform from unprivileged to admin, allows remote code execution, financial theft, etc. Examples: Remote Code Execution, Vertical Authentication bypass, SSRF, XXE, SQL Injection, User authentication bypass

P2 – HIGH – 15 points
Vulnerabilities that affect the security of the platform including the processes it supports. Examples: Lateral authentication bypass, Stored XSS, some CSRF depending on impact

P3 – MEDIUM – 10 points
Vulnerabilities that affect multiple users, and require little or no user interaction to trigger. Examples: Reflective XSS, Direct object reference, URL Redirect, some CSRF depending on impact

P4 – LOW – 5 points
Issues that affect singular users and require interaction or significant prerequisites (MitM) to trigger. Examples: Common flaws, Debug information, Mixed Content

P5 – BIZ ACCEPTED RISK – 2 points
Non-exploitable weaknesses and “won’t fix” vulnerabilities. Examples: Best practices, mitigations, issues that are by design or acceptable business risk to the customer such as use of CAPTCHAS.

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Great work in April!

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