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My First Bug Bounty Experience: Lessons, Challenges, and Growth

DEV Community·Md. Lavib Uddin Ashik·17 days ago
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Bug bounty hunting is one of the most exciting ways to learn cybersecurity while working on real-world applications. Unlike theoretical learning, it gives you the opportunity to test live systems, think like an attacker, and help organizations secure their platforms. When I first started my bug bounty journey, I was full of curiosity—but also confusion. 🚀 The Beginning: Excitement Meets Reality At the start, everything seemed simple in theory. I had learned about vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL Injection, and IDOR. I thought I could easily find bugs if I just followed tutorials. But reality was different. When I began testing real applications: I couldn’t find any vulnerabilities I didn’t fully understand the application logic I felt lost and frustrated There were moments when I questioned whether I was on the right path. 💭 The Struggle Phase One of the biggest challenges in bug bounty hunting is not finding anything at the beginning. You test: Input fields URLs Parameters But nothing works.…

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