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.
1️⃣ Narrative kill chain tying root cause → exploit steps → observable impact 2️⃣ Proof the attack succeeds (replayable scripts, Burp/HAR with matched responses).
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.
$5,000 per validated critical
One flat tier. Multiple criticals from the same researcher are paid independently.
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
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
Rules of engagement
- Prove exploitation success. Replayable curl flows, Burp/HAR exports, web shell access logs.
- Articulate kill chain. Number each hop: initial vector → escalation → admin access → data exfiltration.
- Document blast radius. Quantify users or records affected.
- Encrypt & ship privately. Sanctioned intake before broadcasting.
- Duplicate fairness. First fully qualifying chain wins.
How to submit a report
Start from the security contact on a4tech.ua.
# 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
Admin panel bypass via default credentials
Default or weak admin credentials exposed in client-side source — authenticate to backoffice and pivot to customer data.
<!-- 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>
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.