01 — Overview

E-commerce surfaces worth pressure-testing

A4Tech is a Ukrainian e-commerce platform selling computer peripherals, accessories, and electronics at a4tech.ua. The site handles customer accounts, order fulfillment, payment processing, admin dashboards, CMS product management, and file upload workflows for product imagery — fertile ground for admin access escalation, shell/RCE, XSS-to-file-upload chains, and database extraction if any boundary slips.

In scope materially: every HTTP(S) origin answering for a4tech.ua and delegated subdomains, admin and staff portals, CMS and product management interfaces, customer database and order records, checkout and payment processing flows, file upload endpoints, API integrations with shipping and payment providers, staging or preview environments.
Civil exclusions only: mass harassment, ransomware, laundering.

Minimum evidence bar — non-negotiable:
1️⃣ Narrative kill chain tying root cause → exploit steps → observable impact  2️⃣ Proof the attack succeeds (replayable scripts, Burp/HAR with matched responses).
02 — Why this matters

Why probe A4Tech?

Flat $5K critical payouts

Validated critical exploits earn exactly $5,000 USD.

Admin access blast radius

Admin portals control product catalogs, pricing, customer data, and order fulfilment for the Ukrainian market.

File upload & XSS vectors

Product images and document uploads are common XSS and web shell vectors in Ukrainian e-commerce platforms.

03 — Critical reward

$5,000 per validated critical

Critical$5,000 USD

One flat tier. Multiple criticals from the same researcher are paid independently.

Special bounty uplift: Shell/RCE + database extraction of customer PII qualifies for $10,000+ special bounty.
04 — Scope

What's in scope

Everything A4Tech operates at a4tech.ua and its subdomains.

  • Admin and staff backoffice panels — authentication bypass, privilege escalation
  • File upload endpoints — unrestricted upload, path traversal, web shell deployment
  • XSS vectors — stored, reflected, DOM-based chaining to session theft
  • Shell/RCE — command injection, template injection, SSRF-to-RCE
  • Customer database — SQL injection, data extraction of PII and order records
  • Checkout and payment flows — price manipulation, order tampering
  • CMS and product management — content injection, media library abuse
  • API endpoints — REST and GraphQL surfaces, authentication flaws, IDOR
  • Staging / dev environments — dev-, staging-, test- subdomains
05 — Full-scope policy

No discretionary carve-outs

Every endpoint, parameter, and admin interface is eligible when a critical impact is reproducible.

  • Every hostname routing through A4Tech edge
  • Third-party integrations when the vulnerability originates from A4Tech
  • Admin subdomains — admin, dashboard, backoffice
06 — Rules

Rules of engagement

  1. Prove exploitation success. Replayable curl flows, Burp/HAR exports, web shell access logs.
  2. Articulate kill chain. Number each hop: initial vector → escalation → admin access → data exfiltration.
  3. Document blast radius. Quantify users or records affected.
  4. Encrypt & ship privately. Sanctioned intake before broadcasting.
  5. Duplicate fairness. First fully qualifying chain wins.
07 — Submit

How to submit a report

Start from the security contact on a4tech.ua.

Report Template
# Title
[Critical][Exploit-Proven] <tight title>
## Attack chain narrative
1. Preconditions
2. Entry primitive — exact HTTP verb/path/query/body
3. Pivot(s) chaining trust escalation
4. Final hop → admin access / data exfiltration / shell
## Successful exploitation evidence
• Replayable script + truncated responses
• HAR / Burp with unauthorized state change
## Reproduction package
Commands + fixtures + pinned SHAs
08 — Example

Admin panel bypass via default credentials

Default or weak admin credentials exposed in client-side source — authenticate to backoffice and pivot to customer data.

HTML · illustrative discovery
<!-- BUGGY: admin credentials in HTML comment -->
<!--
  Admin login: /admin/login.php
  Default credentials: admin / admin123
  Change on first login!
-->

<!-- BUGGY: hardcoded API keys in JS bundle -->
<script>
  const API_KEY = 'sk_live_A4TECH_SECRET_KEY_2024';
  const DB_HOST = 'a4tech.internal';
</script>
09 — FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Out of scope besides illegal stuff?

No discretionary carve-outs — only universal legal/ethical lines.

Write-ups without exploit get paid?

No. Both narrative and evidence required.

Staging environments?

Yes, when A4Tech labels or operates them.

Duplicates?

First validated chain + reproducible exploitation wins.

Lower severities?

Not under this $5K-flat critical playbook.

Critical chain + working exploit = $5,000

Document the attack, prove it lands, file privately.