Episode 131: SL Cyber Writeups, Bug Bounty Metastrategy, and Orphaned Github Commits
Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast17 Heinä 2025

Episode 131: SL Cyber Writeups, Bug Bounty Metastrategy, and Orphaned Github Commits

Episode 131: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast we're covering Christmas in July with several banger articles from Searchlight Cyber, as well as covering things like Raycast for Windows, Third-Person prompting, and touch on the recent McDonalds Leak

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====== Resources ======

v1 Instance Metadata Service protections bypass

Would you like an IDOR with that? Leaking 64 million McDonald’s job applications

How we got persistent XSS on every AEM cloud site, thrice

Google docs now supports export as markdown

Abusing Windows, .NET quirks, and Unicode Normalization to exploit DNN (DotNetNuke)

How I Scanned all of GitHub’s “Oops Commits” for Leaked Secrets

Bug bounty, feedback, strategy and alchemy

====== Timestamps ======

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:05:39) Metadata Service protections bypass & Mcdonalds Leak

(00:12:30) Christmas in July with Searchlight Cyber Pt 1

(00:19:43) Export as Markdown, Raycast for Windows, & Third-Person prompting

(00:23:56) Christmas in July with Searchlight Cyber Pt 2

(00:27:39) GitHub’s “Oops Commits” for Leaked Secrets

(00:36:53) Bug bounty, feedback, strategy and alchemy

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