PayPal bug bounty programs
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PayPal runs three public programs: a self-hosted bug bounty paying up to $30,000, a HackerOne bug bounty paying up to $30,000 and a self-hosted bug bounty.
- Top reward
- $30,000
- Self-hosted
- Programs
- 3
- 3 pay cash
- Targets in scope
- 50
- 6 types, deduplicated
- Last change
- None yet
- Tracked since Nov 2026
Where to report
3 programs, side by side. Report where the affected target is in scope; when two programs cover it, pick the one that pays more.
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Braintree
Self-hosted · Pays the most of the 3 programs: up to $30,000.
| Program | Critical | High | Medium | Low | Top reward | Safe harbor | KYC | First response | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Braintree
Self-hosted · Bug bounty |
$30k (highest) | $20k (highest) | $10k (highest) | $1,000 (highest) | $30,000 | Partial | – | 2 days promised | Open |
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PayPal
HackerOne · Bug bounty |
$30k | $20k | $10k | $1,000 | $30,000 | Partial | – | 1 hour average | Open |
|
Paypal
Self-hosted · Bug bounty |
– | – | – | – | Not published | None | – | – | Open |
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- Critical
- $30k (highest)
- High
- $20k (highest)
- Medium
- $10k (highest)
- Low
- $1,000 (highest)
- Safe harbor
- Partial
- First response
- 2 days promised
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- Critical
- $30k
- High
- $20k
- Medium
- $10k
- Low
- $1,000
- Safe harbor
- Partial
- First response
- 1 hour average
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- Safe harbor
- None
Amounts are the top reward per severity in the currency each program pays. Green marks the highest per severity. First response is the platform's measured average when it publishes one, else what the policy promises.
What is in scope
50 targets across all 3 programs, each listed once with the programs that cover it. 14 excluded.
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Account restrictions and control bypasses - campaign
Products and areas Critical
Covered by HackerOne
No target matches. Try part of a host name, such as the company name.
Out of scope 14
Don't test these. A program can exclude a host another program covers; the program you report to decides.
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*.atlassian.net
HackerOne
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*.paypal.cn
HackerOne
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www.paypal-support.com
Braintree HackerOne
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braintree.com
HackerOne
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www.gopay.com
HackerOne
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com.paypal.here
HackerOne
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com.paypal.herehd
HackerOne
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Chargehound
Braintree
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Honey
Braintree
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Paidy
Braintree
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Payflow Gateway (Payflow Pro, Payflow Link, PayPal Manager, and associated pilot/test endpoints)
Braintree
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Simility
Braintree
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The braintree-web-drop-in SDK
Braintree
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Zettle
Braintree
Recent changes
Reward and scope changes across every PayPal program, newest first.
No changes recorded yet. New targets and reward moves show up here and in the RSS feed.
Recent CVEs
Published vulnerabilities in PayPal products, from the NVD.
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CVE-2022-48345 Medium
sanitize-url (aka @braintree/sanitize-url) before 6.0.2 allows XSS via HTML entities.
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CVE-2022-48345 Medium
sanitize-url (aka @braintree/sanitize-url) before 6.0.2 allows XSS via HTML entities.
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CVE-2022-21129 High
Versions of the package nemo-appium before 0.0.9 are vulnerable to Command Injection due to improper input sanitization in the 'module.exports.setup' function. **Note:** In order to exploit this vulnerability appium-running 0.1.3 has to be installed as one of nemo-appium dependencies.
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CVE-2022-21129 High
Versions of the package nemo-appium before 0.0.9 are vulnerable to Command Injection due to improper input sanitization in the 'module.exports.setup' function. **Note:** In order to exploit this vulnerability appium-running 0.1.3 has to be installed as one of nemo-appium dependencies.
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CVE-2021-23648 Medium
The package @braintree/sanitize-url before 6.0.0 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to improper sanitization in sanitizeUrl function.
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CVE-2021-23648 Medium
The package @braintree/sanitize-url before 6.0.0 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to improper sanitization in sanitizeUrl function.
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CVE-2017-6217 Medium
paypal/adaptivepayments-sdk-php v3.9.2 is vulnerable to a reflected XSS in the SetPaymentOptions.php resulting code execution
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CVE-2017-6217 Medium
paypal/adaptivepayments-sdk-php v3.9.2 is vulnerable to a reflected XSS in the SetPaymentOptions.php resulting code execution
About this page
This page gathers every public program listed under paypal.com: 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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