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WP Engine Bug Bounty

By WP Engine Bug bounty on Intigriti wpengine.com

Paused Full safe harbor
Top reward
€2,500
Top severity paid
Critical
Assets in scope
18
Public CVEs
11
Last change

At a glance

What to know before you start testing.

Pays up to €2,500
for critical bugs.
Full safe harbor
Good-faith research is authorised; no legal action.
No public write-ups
Keep findings private.

Rewards

What Intigriti lists as the payout for each severity.

Severity Reward
Critical €2,500 from €250
High €500 from €125
Medium €250 from €50

Scope

18 assets you may test, 1 excluded.

Web 9

  • https://app.getflywheel.com
  • https://getflywheel.com
  • https://makeshift.film
  • https://my.wpengine.com
  • https://payments.wpengine.com
  • https://studiopress.blog
  • https://torquemag.io
  • https://velocitize.com
  • https://wpengine.com

Wildcard domains 8

  • *. advancedcustomfields.com
  • *. bettersearchreplace.com
  • *.deliciousbrains.com
  • *.localwp.com
  • *.nitropack.io
  • *.studiopress.com
  • *.wpengine.io
  • *.wpesvc.net

Products and areas 1

  • WP Engine-developed WordPress Plugins and Themes
Out of scope (1)
  • marketing.nitropack.io

Rules

What the policy asks of you, and the bug types it won't reward, quoted from WP Engine Bug Bounty (via Intigriti)'s policy.

While testing

  • Respect the scope of the program
  • Not discuss or disclose vulnerability information without prior written consent (including PoC's on YouTube and Vimeo)
  • Utilize an @intigriti.me account for any authenticated interactions with web or desktop applications
  • Avoid testing of any WP Engine or Flywheel customer sites, primarily located on the *.wpengine.com or *.flywheelsites.com subdomains.

Not accepted

  • API key disclosure without proven business impact
  • Wordpress usernames disclosure
  • Pre-Auth Account takeover/OAuth squatting
  • Self-XSS that cannot be used to exploit other users
  • Verbose messages/files/directory listings without disclosing any sensitive information
  • CORS misconfiguration on non-sensitive endpoints
  • Missing cookie flags
  • Missing security headers
  • Cross-site Request Forgery with no or low impact
  • Presence of autocomplete attribute on web forms
  • Reverse tabnabbing
  • Bypassing rate-limits or the non-existence of rate-limits.
  • Best practices violations (password complexity, expiration, re-use, etc.)
  • Clickjacking without proven impact/unrealistic user interaction
  • CSV Injection
  • Sessions not being invalidated (logout, enabling 2FA, etc.)
  • Tokens leaked to third parties
  • Anything related to email spoofing, SPF, DMARC or DKIM
  • Content injection without being able to modify the HTML
  • Username/email enumeration
  • Email bombing
  • HTTP Request smuggling without any proven impact
  • Homograph attacks
  • XMLRPC enabled
  • Banner grabbing/Version disclosure

Summarised with AI from the program policy on Intigriti, and checked word for word against it. Read the original

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Public CVEs

Published vulnerabilities in this vendor's products, from the NVD.

Search NVD
CVESeverityPublished
CVE-2024-3901 Medium 6.8 15 May 2025
CVE-2024-45429 Medium 6.1 4 Sep 2024
CVE-2024-3563 Medium 6.4 9 Jul 2024
CVE-2024-2761 Medium 6.8 19 Apr 2024
CVE-2023-6933 High 8.8 5 Feb 2024
CVE-2022-1563 Medium 5.3 16 Jan 2024
CVE-2023-23684 Medium 4.4 13 Nov 2023
CVE-2023-24421 Medium 5.4 11 Jul 2023
CVE-2019-9879 Critical 9.8 10 Jun 2019
CVE-2019-9880 Critical 9.1 10 Jun 2019
CVE-2019-9881 Medium 5.3 10 Jun 2019

Original policy

Copied from www.intigriti.com on 12 Nov 2026. The summaries on this page are made from it; the live page may have changed since.

Description

Welcome! WP Engine invites you to evaluate our products and platforms. WP Engine equips its customers with a suite of agility, performance, intelligence, and integration solutions, so you can build and deploy a range of online experiences from campaign sites to content hubs to e-commerce extensions. Good luck and happy hunting!

Rules of engagement

By participating in this program, you agree to:

  • Respect the Community Code of Conduct
  • Respect the Intigriti Terms and Conditions
  • Respect the scope of the program
  • Not discuss or disclose vulnerability information without prior written consent (including PoC's on YouTube and Vimeo)
  • Utilize an @intigriti.me account for any authenticated interactions with web or desktop applications
  • Avoid testing of any WP Engine or Flywheel customer sites, primarily located on the *.wpengine.com or *.flywheelsites.com subdomains.

You may not participate in this program if you are ordinarily resident in, or located in, any country or region subject to comprehensive sanctions, or if you are an individual or entity identified on any applicable sanctions list (including those administered by OFAC, the EU, the UN, or the UK's OFSI).

Validation times We will validate all submissions within the below timelines, once your submission has been verified by Intigriti. Submissions validated outside of this may be awarded a €25 bonus.

Vulnerability Severity Time to validate
Exceptional 2 Working days
Critical 2 Working days
High 5 Working days
Medium 15 Working days
Low 15 Working days

This remains at the discretion of the WP Engine to award.

Check our fix We offer up to €50 bonus to verify a resolved issue for us (when requested). This remains at the discretion of WP Engine to award.

Restrictions Security researchers who reside in countries sanctioned or embargoed by the United States (U.S.) Government or are on a U.S. Government list of sanctioned individuals are prohibited from participating in WP Engine's bug bounty program, and are therefore not eligible for bounty payments.

In scope

We are excited to announce our public bug bounty program! We've done our best to remediate most of our known issues and now would like to request your help to spot the ones we missed! We are specifically looking for reports regarding:

  • Exposure of sensitive data in the WP Engine User Portal, Flywheel App, as well as on the associated platforms
  • Horizontal / vertical privilege escalation
  • SQLi
  • Code execution on internal hosts or services
  • SSRF

Any other issues that have a demonstrated security impact, aside from those in the Out of scope section below, are eligible for review.

Out of scope

Customer Support Interactions or Contact Forms

Domains

  • Any domain or subdomain that is not listed in the Domains section is out of scope for this program

Application

  • API key disclosure without proven business impact
  • Wordpress usernames disclosure
  • Pre-Auth Account takeover/OAuth squatting
  • Self-XSS that cannot be used to exploit other users
  • Verbose messages/files/directory listings without disclosing any sensitive information
  • CORS misconfiguration on non-sensitive endpoints
  • Missing cookie flags
  • Missing security headers
  • Cross-site Request Forgery with no or low impact
  • Presence of autocomplete attribute on web forms
  • Reverse tabnabbing
  • Bypassing rate-limits or the non-existence of rate-limits.
  • Best practices violations (password complexity, expiration, re-use, etc.)
  • Clickjacking without proven impact/unrealistic user interaction
  • CSV Injection
  • Sessions not being invalidated (logout, enabling 2FA, etc.)
  • Tokens leaked to third parties
  • Anything related to email spoofing, SPF, DMARC or DKIM
  • Content injection without being able to modify the HTML
  • Username/email enumeration
  • Email bombing
  • HTTP Request smuggling without any proven impact
  • Homograph attacks
  • XMLRPC enabled
  • Banner grabbing/Version disclosure
  • Not stripping metadata of files
  • Same-site scripting
  • Subdomain takeover without taking over the subdomain
  • Arbitrary file upload without proof of the existence of the uploaded file
  • Blind SSRF without proven business impact (pingbacks are not sufficient)
  • Disclosed/misconfigured Google Maps or other API keys intended for publishing.
  • Host header injection without proven business impact

General

  • In case that a reported vulnerability was already known to the company from their own tests, it will be flagged as a duplicate
  • Theoretical security issues with no realistic exploit scenario(s) or attack surfaces, or issues that would require complex end user interactions to be exploited
  • Spam, social engineering and physical intrusion
  • DoS/DDoS attacks or brute force attacks
  • Vulnerabilities that only work on software that no longer receive security updates
  • Attacks requiring physical access to a victim's computer/device, man in the middle or compromised user accounts
  • Recently discovered zero-day vulnerabilities found in in-scope assets within 7 days after the public release of a patch or mitigation may be reported, but are usually not eligible for a bounty
  • Reports that state that software is out of date/vulnerable without a proof-of-concept

Assets temporarily out of scope

  • Any subdomain of *.getflywheel.com is out of scope as of September 23, 2025.
  • The subdomains marketing.nitropack.io and www.marketing.nitropack.io are out of scope as of November 20, 2025.

Severity

This program follows Intigriti's triage standards

FAQ

Which program should I use to submit a report?

If you do not wish to (or are unable to) receive a bounty payout, please submit reports to our VDP: https://app.intigriti.com/company/programs/wpengine/wpengine/detail