Be my friend! Verification no need :-)

Vasanth
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3 min readJul 22, 2022

Hello everyone hope all are safe and doing good. I am Vasanth from Madurai, Tamilnadu, and a part-time bug bounty hunter I have been acknowledged by Google, Apple, Microsoft, GitHub, Pornhub, and 10+.

This is my third writeup in this I will share how I was able to send a friend request to Pornhub users without mail addresses is verified.

Let’s Go

After found the first bug on Pornhub I was looking for another bug at that time I saw we can able to add other users as a friend well but on Pornhub, I don’t have any friends🥺🥺.

I created another account and now navigated to the second account profile and selected “Add Friend” but the game begins I have not verified the mail address so here to add a friend I need to verify the mail address😏😏 uff..!

I was not able to send a friend request because the email is not verified

Then it is time to what?? let’s play with Inspect Element🔥🔥 I have analyzed all the 👨‍💻👨‍💻 source code and finally i found this part.

The Code was

During my testing with my verified account, I have finded.

data-show-confirm-email-model=”1" → This “1” indicates the account is not verified and

data-show-confirm-email-model=”0" → This “0” indicates the account is verified.

Now lets send friend request without mail address is verified but how? just the change the value from “1” → “0”

Now when I clicked “Add Friend” I was able to send a friend request without my email is verified😉.

Sending Friend Request to my second account

Well, to verify I went to my second account and checked the Friend request list to my surprise the request came😍😍 and if we accept we can become friends😊😊.

First Account friend request

In this way I was able to send a friend request to any users on Pornhub without the mail address is verified.

TIMELINE

Reported on →16/04/2022

Traiged on → 17/04/2022

Resolved on → 27/06/2022

I hope you will like this writeup soon and will see it in the next writeup.

Don’t wait for the dream Chase it

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