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_metamorfosec_ | Security Researcher Profile


Security researcher _metamorfosec_ has already helped fix 4535 vulnerabilities.



Researcher reputation:  640

Real name:
irfan

About me:
Security Researcher, Independent Software Vendor, Self-Published Author.

I use Google, creativity, and luck. No automated tool!

Contact email:
[email protected]

Alternative Contacts:
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Award / Bug Bounty I prefer:
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I prefer:
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Recommendation/Free Stuff/etc

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Recommendations and Acknowledgements | Full List:

@TorutheRedFox     16 March, 2024
    Twitter TorutheRedFox Toru the Red Fox from Neoalpha:
Thanks for the help with the XSS vulnerability. It was a quick fix.
@PSM_DiegoGB     29 September, 2022
    Twitter PSM_DiegoGB Diego from PSM:
Thanks for reporting the XSS problem. We have fixed the vulnerability on our website.
@scegliesmarode     18 July, 2022
    Twitter scegliesmarode Wolfgang from SCEGliesmarode:
Thanks to metamorfosec for reporting the XSS problem on our websites.
I could fix the problem in a very short time.
Professional communication and quick and detailed responses.
Thanks alot!
@MrMoney84315336     12 July, 2022
    Twitter MrMoney84315336 Jens Weck from Mr-Money Software GmbH:
Thanks for reporting the XSS problem on our websites.
We were able to fix the problem within 3 hours.
Great job - thank you
@WebtunGrafix     21 March, 2022
    Twitter WebtunGrafix Thomas from Webtun Grafix:
Thank you for noticing the problem of one of our customers and that we were able to resolve it quickly.
Thank you!
@AirChildVA     11 March, 2022
    Twitter AirChildVA Matthias Hoffmann from AirChildVA:
We would like to thank metamorfosec for reporting some XSS-Vulnerabilities on our site responsible. We did fix those now.
@skyynet_de     19 November, 2021
    Twitter skyynet_de Ingo from Skyynet:
Thanks for informing me about a general PHP malfunction which could be used to scam people on my website.
@AxelZim98609454     20 October, 2021
    Twitter AxelZim98609454 Axel from deltacity:
Thank you very much for finding and evaluating a vulnerability on our website. We really appreciate your help!
@MMWin     6 October, 2021
    Twitter MMWin Cole from MusicMaster, Inc.:
Very quick response and very helpful! We were able to patch the vulnerability quickly and privately.
@meanstest     24 September, 2021
    Twitter meanstest Albin from LegalConsumer:
Thanks for the detailed report and helping us zero in and fix this problem quickly!
@bjdean     29 April, 2021
    Twitter bjdean bjdean from Home_co_uk:
Very helpful and responsive to queries, which assisted us both with resolving the reported issues and working with with OpenBugBounty.
@Daniel_Gruber     12 April, 2021
    Twitter Daniel_Gruber Daniel Gruber from EsperoTech:
Thanks for reporting the XSS problem at my websites and the open source software I am developing metamorfosec.
@JDudley1123     18 February, 2021
    Twitter JDudley1123 Joseph from UKSEDS:
Metamorfosec was really helpful in providing detailed information about the problem and how to fix it. Thank you!
@cwg     9 February, 2021
    Twitter cwg Christian from Fluxicon:
Thanks for your detailed and concise report. Professional communication and prompt feedback -- Great job!
@Henrik40464087     1 February, 2021
    Twitter Henrik40464087 Henrik from Increo:
Thank you for making us aware of the issues on our websites and providing detailed information of so we could make the required fixes. Very helpful!
@Pavlo851     2 October, 2020
    Twitter Pavlo851 Simone from Pixartprinting:
Irfan has been very helpful on helping our company to patch a vulnerability that was affecting all of our websites. We reach to him and he explained us the vulnerability that has been quickly patched. He has also checked the patch to verify that it was properly set up. Thanks a lot Irfan!
@6tematik     1 October, 2020
    Twitter 6tematik 6tematik from 6tematik:
Metamorfosec did a great job finding and evualuating our vulnerabilites. Very good communication with the researcher, he was very helping and quick.
@philipkujawski     17 August, 2020
    Twitter philipkujawski P K from WebToMed:
Thank you for reporting the problem and associated details!
@Robert_CMI     3 August, 2020
    Twitter Robert_CMI Robert from CMI:
Thank you for reporting the vulnerability on our website, we very much appreciate your quick response and good description of the issue.
@Yaha_no     2 June, 2020
    Twitter Yaha_no Atle from Y aha:
Thank you very much for reporting a problem on our website and help with giving detailed description and explanations on how we could solve it.
@vovsoft     15 April, 2020
    Twitter vovsoft Vovsoft from Vovsoft:
Thank you very much for finding the bug on our website and your responsible disclosure. Absolutely appreciated. You make the web a better place!
@omartanti     30 March, 2020
    Twitter omartanti Omar Tanti from Omar Tanti:
Thank you for reporting the problem and giving detailed explanations on how we would sort it out.
@justincarter     29 January, 2020
    Twitter justincarter Justin from Daemon:
Thanks for your clear and concise report and quick communication, a true security professional :)
@h0eschi     1 December, 2019
    Twitter h0eschi Martin from guideme:
Thank you very much for finding and evaluating a vulnerability on our website. Very professional and detailed communication.
@cloudrexx     17 October, 2019
    Twitter cloudrexx Thomas from Cloudrexx AG:
Thank you very much for making us aware of the issue and providing us a high quality vulnerability report which helped us identify the source of the vulnerability right away.
@SimianE     11 October, 2019
    Twitter SimianE Gary from Simian Enterprises:
A comprehensive report helped me quickly patch a vulnerability on a recently deployed client system. I very much appreciate you taking the time to report with a reproducible test case. Many thanks.
@tschipie     10 October, 2019
    Twitter tschipie Andreas from Bresser:
Thank you very much for finding and evaluating a vulnerability on our website. Very professional and detailed communication.
@KaldaJ     7 October, 2019
    Twitter KaldaJ Kalda from Kalda:
Thanks for reporting the problem and the vulnerability details.
@JensFis25000410     26 September, 2019
    Twitter JensFis25000410 Jens from netdoktor.de:
Thank you for making us aware of an issue on our site.
We really appreciate it.
@Marcel93092047     9 September, 2019
    Twitter Marcel93092047 Marcel Ruths from WIKA:
Thanks very much for the report!
We were sure that everything was proteced, but apparently we missed some special places where the escaping wasn't sufficient.
It is now fixed.
@maxiorel     19 August, 2019
    Twitter maxiorel Jan Polzer from Jan Polzer:
Thanks for reporting the problem and the vulnerability details.
@johannmw     9 August, 2019
    Twitter johannmw Johann MW from AAK:
Thank you for finding the vulnerability on our website.
It has been taken care of after your recommendations
Good work !
@mjimeneza     9 July, 2019
    Twitter mjimeneza Manu from Joma:
Thanks you very much for the advice about security issue in our site.
@perlpunks     8 July, 2019
    Twitter perlpunks Tina from perl-community.de:
Thanks very much for the report!
I was pretty sure that everything was safe, but apparently I missed two places where the escaping wasn't sufficient.
@LeifTher     20 May, 2019
    Twitter LeifTher Leif from Gurusoft AS:
Thank you so much for reporting security vulnerability and for the information needed to fix the issues.
@jesuscholiz     13 May, 2019
    Twitter jesuscholiz jesus from Adevinta:
Thanks for your help!
Your findings were accurate, and collaboration with you was easy.
It's is glad to see responsible disclosures like yours, that help Companies to fix security bugs.
Thanks!
@yalwa     28 March, 2019
    Twitter yalwa Jens from Yalwa:
Thanks for making us aware of CSRF vulnerabilities on our websites! They're more secure now.
@wirismath     1 March, 2019
    Twitter wirismath Llorenç from Wiris Math:
Thanks for reporting two bugs from our Math Suite Wiris Quizzes and CalcMe. It's now a better product thanks to you!
@DomainMOD     5 February, 2019
    Twitter DomainMOD Greg Chetcuti from DomainMOD:
Thank you so much for reporting this vulnerability in a responsible manner! We were able to find and fix this specific vulnerability, as well as another that was related, and we really appreciate your help in getting this sorted out!
@gizmotico     20 January, 2019
    Twitter gizmotico Andersen from VegaDesign.net:
Thank you so much for reporting security vulnerability and for the information needed to fix the issues.
@jackwolfskin     25 October, 2018
    Twitter jackwolfskin Christine from Jack Wolfskin:
Thank you very much for helping to make our website even more secure.
@wirthundhorn     22 August, 2018
    Twitter wirthundhorn Support from dtv.de:
Thank you helping us finding and fixing vulnerabilities.
@DanielGuenthe12     22 August, 2018
    Twitter DanielGuenthe12 Daniel Guenther from Visual Meta GmbH:
Very fast response and very detailed and helpful reply. The observations were all correct and the the HTML which was provided in the response correctly illustrated the vulnerability.

Overall great job and thanks for your efforts!
@tarif4you     17 August, 2018
    Twitter tarif4you Alex from DAIR Media:
Thank you very much for a great and in-depth explanation of the issue.
This kind of description makes it very easy to identify and fix the
problem. Really appreciate your help.
@kevinBaseCom     9 August, 2018
    Twitter kevinBaseCom Kevin from Online Commerce Ltd:
Thank you foro reporting a security issue with our website and for promptly providing the affected pages.
@sgiannandrea2     26 July, 2018
    Twitter sgiannandrea2 sgiannandrea from LepidaSpA:
Thank you so much for reporting XSS vulnerabilities on our websites.
@testmynet     23 June, 2018
    Twitter testmynet CA3LE from TestMy.net:
Thank you for helping me address my XSS issues.
@willy0611     12 June, 2018
    Twitter willy0611 Willy from BOINCstats.com:
Thank you for pointing out a security issue on the BOINCstats website. It helped me find and fix the issue and a few other issues as well.
@DriverEasy     8 June, 2018
    Twitter DriverEasy Driver Easy from Driver Easy:
Thank you so much for reporting the security issue and bringing this to our attention. We highly appreciate your time and professional skills in helping to make Driver Easy more secure.
We're working on the issue and will update with you when we fix it.
Thanks again for everything.
@karriere_ms     28 May, 2018
    Twitter karriere_ms Sina from Aschendorff Medien GmbH & Co. KG:
Thank you for reporting a security vulnerability on our websites and for giving us the information needed in order to patch it. We really appreciate your help!

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Total reports:22393
Total reports on VIP sites:186
Total patched vulnerabilities:4535
Total vulnerabilities on Hold (Open Bug Bounty):868
Recommendations received:50
Active since:30.04.2018

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    Mek:
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