Responsible Disclosure of Security Vulnerabilities

We're working with the security community to make iFixit safe for everyone.

If you've discovered a security vulnerability, we appreciate your help in disclosing it to us in a responsible manner.

We'll work with you to make sure that we understand the scope of the issue, and that we fully address your concern. If you believe you have discovered a vulnerability or have a security incident to report, please email security@ifixit.com. Please include a detailed summary of the issue you discovered. Be sure to include an email address where we can reach you in case we need more information.

Please act in good faith towards our users' privacy and data during your disclosure. When testing for vulnerabilities, please do not insert test code into popular public guides or threads. These guides are used by thousands of people daily, and disrupting their experience by testing for vulnerabilities is harmful.

Please, always make a new guide or ask a new question instead! If those actions are not possible, please delete all guides, comments, and posts when you have completed your testing and reporting.

We won't take legal or administrative action against you or your account if you act accordingly: White hat researchers are always appreciated.

We're happy to provide attribution to users who report valid security vulnerabilities. To be eligible for credit on this page and a reward of iFixit swag, you must:

Be the first person to responsibly disclose the bug.
Report a bug that could compromise our users' private data, circumvent the system's protections, or enable access to a system within our infrastructure.

Please do report:

Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF/XSRF)
Broken Authentication
Circumvention of our framework's privacy and permission models
Remote Code Execution

Please do not report:

Outdated versions of Wordpress with no known vulnerabilities
Username enumeration
Self-XSS
Missing DNS SPF records
Security problems with subdomains such as createsend.ifixit.com that are operated by third party services
Vulnerabilities which require preexisting privileged access to user data (e.g. session cookies, leaked passwords, etc.).

Our security team will assess each bug to determine if it qualifies. We do our best to respond to your reports in a timely manner. We aim to respond within 3 business days, however some reports take longer than others to investigate. We reply only during business hours (9AM-5PM PST, weekdays, excluding holidays). Repeated emails will NOT result in a quicker response, and may bump your report to the end of the queue.

Thank you for your help with keeping the iFixit community safe. We really appreciate it.

Here are people who have responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities in the past:

Mouaz Abdelkader
Surya Prakash Akula
Naveen Kumar
Marek Jílek

Kunal Khairnar

Nitin Goplani
Mohammed Abdulqader Al-saggaf
Mohamed Abdelbaset Elnoby
Mazen Gamal Mesbah
Abhishek Dashora
Kiran Karnad
Eslam Medhat
Karthic Kumar
Jitendra Jaiswal
Abdul Wasay
Anand Prakash
Rafael Pablos
Robin Puri
Tom Caserta
Jerold Camacho
Justine Edic
Manish Bhattacharya
Muhammad Talha Khan
Atulkumar Hariba Shedage - Suruji.com
Cedric Van Bockhaven
Kamil Sevi
Andris Atteka

Clifford Trigo
Osanda Malith Jayathissa
Boris Miskovic
Hood3dRob1n
Rodolfo Godalle, Jr.
Muhammad Shahmeer
Ishan Anand
Nicholas Lemonias - Advanced Information Security Corp
CyberSecurityMV
Ali Hasan Ghauri
Ehraz Ahmed
Enguerran Gillier
Denis Kolegov
Siddhesh Gawde
Maheshkumar Rajubhai Darji
Jordan Milne
Sumit Shinde
Andrei Miu - @bibz0r
Yaroslav Olejnik - O.J.A.
Sachin Kediyal
Narendra Bhati - Web Security Geeks
Jon - Bitquark
Riaz Ebrahim
Tejash Patel - @tejash1991
Sasi Levi - @sasi2103
Mahadev Subedi
Sebastian Neef & Tim Schäfers - @internetwache
Abhinav Karnawat - \/ w4rri0r \/
Sabari Selvan - @EHackerNews
Malte Batram - @_batram
Priyal Viroja - aN0_pr!+Z
Krutarth Shukla
Himanshu Kumar Das
Mariano Di Martino
Ajay Singh Negi
Piyush Malik - @ThePiyushMalik
Ritesh Arunkumar Sarvaiya - defencely
Kyle Swidrovich
Yuji Kosuga
Shashank Kumar
Atulkumar Hariba Shedage - defencely
Frans Rosén - @detectify
Emanuel Bronshtein - @e3amn2l
Jaume Llopis Pujal
Kamil Sevi - @kamilsevi
Simran Jeet Singh
Tushar Kumbhare - Anti Hacking Anticipation Society
Subho Halder - @sunnyrockzzs & Aditya Gupta - @adi1391

Tushar Kumbhare - Anti Hacking Anticipation Society & Thamatam Deepak - Mr.47
Jaume Llopis Pujal
Jacob Soo Lead Re
Yuji Kosuga
Adam Ziaja
Alok. J. Sudhakar
Adino Namchu
Chiragh Dewan
Rafay Baloch - http://rafayhackingarticles.net
Himanshu Sharma - DCE, Gurgaon
Krutarth Shukla
Harsha Vardhan Boppana - Login Security Solutions
Atulkumar Hariba Shedage - defencely
Rakan Alotaibi - @hxteam
Kamil Sevi - @kamilsevi
Nikhil Kulkarni
M.R.Vignesh Kumar
Prajal Kulkarni
Ajay Singh Negi
Himanshu Kumar Das
Elvin Gentiles
Emanuel Bronshtein - @e3amn2l
Maxim Rupp
Avram Marius Gabriel

Matt Swann - @MSwannMSFT

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