pentester.land· May 5, 2021· by Youssef Sammouda (@samm0uda)💰 Bounty: 18,000

Account takeover of Instagram accounts due to unrestricted permissions of third-party application’s generated tokens

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Target Program: Meta / Facebook
🎯 Vulnerability: OAuth 2.0 / JWT Authentication Bypass
💡 Defense Fix: Strictly verify JWT signatures on the backend, enforce state parameter validation, and reject 'alg: none'.
#OAuth#Broken authorization#Account takeover