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4websecurity Top VIP Security Researcher of the Month | Security Researcher Profile


Security researcher 4websecurity has already helped fix 1040 vulnerabilities.



Researcher reputation:  110

Real name:
Ilie Alexandru

About me:
4websecurity.com - We make the web a better place !

- We encourage you to contact us as soon as possible so we can help fixing the vulnerability reported to you !
- All informations will be kept private!

[email protected]

Contact email:
[email protected]

Alternative Contacts:
https://4websecurity.com

Experience in Application Security
over 5 years

Award / Bug Bounty I prefer:
LOVE

Halls of Fame:
Nice ones:
GOV.UK (https://vdp.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/thanks.txt)
Etherscan.io (https://etherscan.io/bugbounty)
CVE-2022-38553 (https://github.com/4websecurity/CVE-2022-38553)

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Ethics and Rules:
Ilie Alexandru is required to abide by the ethics and rules of the Open Bug Bounty project. If you reasonably believe that rules are not respected, please report this to us.

Recommendations and Acknowledgements

@uptheante     2 July, 2022
    Twitter uptheante Jan Intia from Affise:
Alex from 4websecurity was very helpful in making us aware of our website's vulnerability and also providing recommendation on how to patch it. They are the best at what they do. Great work and thank you again!
@BenjaminSponsor     11 May, 2023
    Twitter BenjaminSponsor Benjamin from Benjamin:
Thanks for making me aware Alex!
@DadadXXVIII     7 May, 2023
    Twitter DadadXXVIII Kix from ACB:
4WebSecurity discovered a vulnerability and quickly contacted us. Alex suggested a solution. Thank you very much.
@marcstorrs     5 May, 2023
    Twitter marcstorrs Marc from Evil Science:
Shout outs to Alex from 4websecurity for alerting me to a vulnerability in my shared hosting environment! Alex also went ahead and contacted the hosting company to alert them to the security issue in hopes of a quick patch roll out. Great work! Thank You!
@authornationtu1     14 July, 2022
    Twitter authornationtu1 Melody Ann from AuthorNation:
4WebSecurity found a vulnerability and let us know immediately. We needed some technical advice to solve it, which he provided. The fix was complete within 24hours. Much appreciated.
@amritanandh     14 July, 2022
    Twitter amritanandh Amrit Anandh from Cartimize:
Ilie from 4websecurity helped us discover a vulnerability on our website. They also helped us confirm the patch and made sure the website was secure. Super quick replies and very helpful. Thanks, Ilie.
@chrispugmire     10 July, 2022
    Twitter chrispugmire Chris Pugmire from NetWin Ltd:
Very helpful thanks for assisting us to resolve this problem quickly.
@LucaNardelli_IT     4 July, 2022
    Twitter LucaNardelli_IT Luca from Caricami:
Ilie from 4websecurity helped us discover a vulnerability in our website and his super quick responses allowed us to fix it. Great work and thank you!!

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Number of Secured Websites

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10+ Websites
50+ Websites
500+ Websites
WEB SECURITY VETERAN
1000+ Websites

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WAF Bypasser
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30+ Reports
AppSec Logic Master
30+ Reports
Fastest Fix
Fix in 24 hours

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Commitment to Remediate and Patch

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Patch Master
55% Patched
Patch Guru
65% Patched
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75% Patched

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10+ Recommends
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Research Statistics



Total reports:42913
Total reports on VIP sites:635
Total patched vulnerabilities:1040
Total vulnerabilities on Hold (Open Bug Bounty):4
Recommendations received:8
Active since:20.06.2022
Top Security Researcher Awards:Gold Star Top Security Researcher of the Month
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  Recent Recommendations

    22 September, 2023
    UPVSecTeam:
Thank you for pointing out the vulnerability. Your report was very helpful!
    6 September, 2023
    AneilR:
Much appreciated the notice from Dipu1a about our website. He provided clear guidelines to resolve and I'm looking forward to working with him in the future.
    5 September, 2023
    dusalnet:
Thank you very much for reporting the vulnerability. Good luck with your everything!!!
    4 September, 2023
    GtBib:
Your report was very helpful! Thank you very much !
    25 August, 2023
    Minas:
Thank you for your help in ensuring the security of our domain and its visitors! Your contributions are invaluable.