Companies paid $4.2M bug bounties for XSS flaws in 2020

From securityaffairs.co

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues are the most common vulnerabilities that received the highest amount of rewards on the HackerOne vulnerability reporting platform.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is the most common vulnerability type and received the highest amount of rewards on the HackerOne vulnerability reporting platform.

XSS vulnerabilities accounted for 18% of all flaws reported by bug hunters, these issues received a total of $4.2 million in bounties paid by companies (+26% from last year).

The Cross Site Vulnerabilites received an average of just $501 per issue.

XSS vulnerabilities can be exploited by threat actors for multiple malicious activities, including account takeover and data theft.

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