- Top reward
- $33,000
- Top severity paid
- Not published
- Assets in scope
- 6
- Public CVEs
- 0
- Last change
- No changes yet
At a glance
What to know before you start testing.
- Pays up to $33,000
- top reward, from $100.
- Report by email
- [email protected]
- Full safe harbor
- Good-faith research is authorised; no legal action.
- Replies within 2 days
- As the policy promises.
- Publish after a fix
- Coordinate the timing with the company.
Rewards
What the company's own policy page says it pays.
The policy page has no reward table. Here is what it says, in its own words.
- Pays cash
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Yes
Patchstack may, at its sole discretion, offer rewards for valid vulnerability reports.
- Response
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Within 2 days
Initial response: within 2 business days
- Safe harbor
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Full
No legal action against compliant, good faith research
- Hall of fame
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Yes
Public recognition , if desired, following coordinated disclosure
Summarised with AI from the company's policy, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original
Reward range in US dollars. Self-hosted's own page has the details.
Scope
6 assets you may test, 5 excluded.
Domains 2
- patchstack.com
- patchstack.com/bug-bounty
APIs 1
- Patchstack APIs and infrastructure
Source code 1
- Patchstack WordPress plugin and any extensions or integrations developed by Patchstack for other content management systems or platforms
Products and areas 2
- Any Patchstack-owned digital assets
- Patchstack website and web applications
Out of scope (5)
- Denial of Service (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
- Issues in third-party systems, applications, or websites not owned or operated by Patchstack
- Physical attacks against Patchstack offices, infrastructure, or data centers
- Social engineering attacks against Patchstack employees, users, or partners
- Spam, phishing, or content-based abuse
Rules
What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from Patchstack's policy.
While testing
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Testing must not impact service availability, stability, or performance
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Automated scanning or high-frequency requests are not permitted without prior written approval
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Testing must not involve lateral movement, privilege escalation attempts beyond the identified vulnerability, or access to systems outside of scope
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Any activity that may degrade, disrupt, or interfere with Patchstack services is strictly prohibited
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Avoid privacy violations, service disruption, and data destruction
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Access only the data strictly necessary to demonstrate the issue
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Not access, download, or exfiltrate large volumes of sensitive data
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Not modify or delete any data
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Not use social engineering against Patchstack employees or customers
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Not disclose vulnerabilities publicly prior to resolution
Not accepted
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Reports generated solely by automated tools without manual validation or a working proof of concept
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Issues without demonstrable, reproducible impact in a realistic attack scenario
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Self-XSS or issues that only affect the reporting user without impacting other users, data, or system integrity
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Issues requiring unrealistic, impractical, or highly unlikely user interaction to exploit
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Clickjacking or UI redressing issues without demonstrated sensitive actions or impact
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Lack of rate limiting, brute force protections, or similar controls without a demonstrated exploit scenario or impact
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Issues that require elevated privileges or roles and do not represent a realistic attack scenario
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Vulnerabilities reproducible only in non-production, outdated, or artificially modified environments
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Reports that are not reproducible on the latest production version of the affected system at the time of submission
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Reports based solely on publicly disclosed vulnerabilities without demonstrating impact on Patchstack systems
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Testing activities involving unnecessary or excessive collection, storage, or transmission of data
Summarised with AI from the company's policy, read 12 Nov 2026, and checked word for word against it. Read the original
Changes
Tracked since 11 Nov 2026. Last checked 5 hours ago.
No changes yet. When the rewards or scope move, you will see it here and in the RSS feed.
Public CVEs
Published vulnerabilities in this vendor's products, from the NVD.
No CVEs matched yet. We match NVD records by vendor name, so products sold under another name can be missing.