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OpenLiteSpeed bug bounty programs

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OpenLiteSpeed runs one public program: a Sorona bug bounty paying up to $1,500.

Top reward
$1,500
Sorona
Programs
1
1 pays cash
Targets in scope
13
2 types
Last change
None yet
Tracked since Nov 2026

Where to report

The one public program OpenLiteSpeed runs.

Amounts are the top reward per severity in the currency each program pays. First response is the platform's measured average when it publishes one, else what the policy promises.

What is in scope

13 targets. 6 excluded.

  • https://openlitespeed.org

    Web

  • Access and error logging, and how attacker-controlled request data reaches a log line

    Products and areas

  • LSAPI, CGI, FastCGI and proxy handlers, and every path where request data reaches an external process

    Products and areas

  • PHP process management, covering how lsphp workers are spawned, reused between requests and torn down

    Products and areas

  • Static file serving, path resolution, rewrite rules and the .htaccess compatibility layer

    Products and areas

  • The cache module and its key derivation, since a keying defect serves one visitor's response to another

    Products and areas

  • The configuration parser and the virtual-host model, including how one tenant's configuration is kept out of another's reach on a shared server

    Products and areas

  • The control interface, the signal handling and the files used to reload or restart a running server

    Products and areas

  • The core HTTP engine across HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, covering request parsing, header handling, framing and connection reuse

    Products and areas

  • The reverse proxy path to backend servers and the trust it places in a backend response

    Products and areas

  • The vendor's security page states its scope as LiteSpeed Web Server, LiteSpeed Web ADC, OpenLiteSpeed and others, so the whole product is accepted rather than a named list of components

    Products and areas

  • The WebAdmin console in full: authentication, session handling, every configuration form and every action it can invoke on the host

    Products and areas

  • TLS termination, certificate handling and SNI-based virtual host selection

    Products and areas

No target matches. Try part of a host name, such as the company name.

Out of scope 6

Don't test these. A program can exclude a host another program covers; the program you report to decides.

  • Configurations that expose WebAdmin to the internet on default credentials, an operator decision rather than a server defect

  • Denial of service proportional to request volume with no amplification factor

  • Findings that apply only to the commercial builds with no effect on the open source product, though the vendor accepts reports on both

  • LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress, a separate product run by a different team with its own reward ecosystem

  • PHP itself and other backends reached over LSAPI, CGI or FastCGI

  • Third-party control panels that generate OpenLiteSpeed configuration

Recent changes

Reward and scope changes across every OpenLiteSpeed program, newest first.

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About this page

This page gathers every public program listed under openlitespeed.org: platform programs, self-hosted policies and security.txt contacts. Each program's own policy decides what is in scope and what it pays; check it before you test.

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