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Implosion | Security Researcher Profile


Security researcher Implosion has already helped fix 1670 vulnerabilities.



Researcher reputation:  370

About me:
French security researcher

Contact email:
Email me at: [email protected]
You can contact me in French/English.

If I reported something on your website, I truly encourage you to contact me. We'll work together to fix the issue.

Experience in Application Security
1-3 years

Award / Bug Bounty I prefer:
If you appreciate my work and want to thank me, you can:

- Reward me a donation (Paypal/Bitcoin/Giftcard etc)
- Public Recognition (Hall of fame etc)
- Swag (T-shirt etc)

Halls of Fame:
- Adobe
- U.S. Dept Of Defense

Recommendations and Acknowledgements | Full List:

@jb_creach     1 September, 2017
    Twitter jb_creach J.B. Creach from sanofi:
Aimable, efficace, pédagogue et précis. Merci pour ce travail qui est un vrai plus pour nos équipes.
@CartRover     15 May, 2020
    Twitter CartRover William from CartRover:
Thank you for your detailed report and helping to make our site more secure.
@SandiSchleicher     25 July, 2019
    Twitter SandiSchleicher Sanford Schleicher from iGive.com:
Thank you very much for bringing this issue to our attention. We appreciate your help in making our site more secure.
@ekleo     10 July, 2019
    Twitter ekleo loic.crampon from UniLaSalle:
Merci à vous pour votre prévention et vos retours très complets et très enrichissants.
@ITTagesschau     17 June, 2019
    Twitter ITTagesschau ITTagesschau from ITTagesschau:
Thank you, for your professional and quick guidiance, about our security flaw
@ArnY     18 March, 2019
    Twitter ArnY Webmaster from Université de Nantes:
Un grand merci pour votre aide. Suite à votre retour rapide et précis la faille a été corrigée rapidement par nos équipes.
@webdekd     2 January, 2019
    Twitter webdekd Note from Dek-D:
Quick reply with useful information on the issue. Thanks
@SunOlilef     19 November, 2018
    Twitter SunOlilef @sunolilef from Université de Rouen Normandie:
Un grand merci pour votre aide et votre disponibilité.
La correction de la faille détectée a été facilité par vos conseils et vos précisions.
@MilesGornak     17 January, 2018
    Twitter MilesGornak G. de B. from CP:
Un grand merci pour la détection d'une faille sur la HomePage de notre site internet, cette dernière a pu être corrigée en moins de 48h !
@wouldsmina1     25 September, 2017
    Twitter wouldsmina1 wouldsmina from LMU:
Merci pour la remonté des multiples failles XSS détecté sur nos sites. Bon travail
@WebmasterECI     25 July, 2017
    Twitter WebmasterECI Kristtoff from Web:
Merci pour la détection de failles et les recommandations de corrections.
@JNRIBETTE     3 March, 2017
    Twitter JNRIBETTE JN.RIBETTE from Kosmos:
Merci pour la détection des failles et les informations permettant de les corriger !
@AlloSteam     28 January, 2017
    Twitter AlloSteam Florian Leroy from AlloSteam:
Merci à vous pour la prévention des deux failles de sécurité détectées. Nous avons pu grâce à cela vite réparer celles ci !
@JulienLeThuaut     16 December, 2016
    Twitter JulienLeThuaut jlt from MBA:
Merci pour votre signalement. Nous avons pu corriger la faille grâce à votre intervention.
@eObsTechnologie     8 November, 2016
    Twitter eObsTechnologie Webmaster from e-Obs Technologies:
Merci beaucoup pour votre alerte et vos précisions rapides et utiles.
La vulnérabilité a été corrigée.
@CHUdeToulouse     4 November, 2016
    Twitter CHUdeToulouse Webmaster from CHU de Toulouse:
Merci pour votre notification et les précisions apportées.
La vulnérabilité est maintenant corrigée.
@MissEbusiness     3 October, 2016
    Twitter MissEbusiness Magali from NC:
Un grand merci pour la détection de la faille et surtout pour vos précisions très rapides par email.
@sahorle     14 September, 2016
    Twitter sahorle Philippe C. from Santé publique France:
Merci pour la notification. La faille de sécurité est corrigée.
@Mxvanders     7 September, 2016
    Twitter Mxvanders Maxence V from TFTM:
Merci pour la notification et l'aide apportée ! Un grand bravo.
@alsacreations     30 August, 2016
    Twitter alsacreations Webmaster from Alsacreations:
Well done and nice job to have found a vulnerability. You are <strong>.
@happyview_fr     25 August, 2016
    Twitter happyview_fr Matt from HappyV:
Merci pour la détection de la faille et votre aide à la résolution! Bonne continuation !
@jean_fromentin     4 August, 2016
    Twitter jean_fromentin Jean Fromentin from IdM:
Merci pour votre veille. Votre aide est très précieuse.
@lmirguet     26 July, 2016
    Twitter lmirguet Laurent Mirguet from aufeminin:
Merci pour la notification. La faille de sécurité est confirmée et nous avons pu la corriger.
@idao42     14 July, 2016
    Twitter idao42 Raphaël M. from ORE:
Merci de nous avoir averti des vulnérabilités.
Thank you for detecting and reporting vulnerabilities.
@thomasaouka     9 July, 2016
    Twitter thomasaouka Thomas HULINE from Aouka:
Merci beaucoup pour votre aide, nous apprécions votre participation.
Thank you for your help. We really appreciate.
@stephanepantin     1 July, 2016
    Twitter stephanepantin Stéphane Pantin from La Provence:
Many thanks for your help and enjoy your free subscription :)
@dendscie     1 July, 2016
    Twitter dendscie Kevin Vasseure from Asics:
Thank you for warning us. Helps a lot.
@al1moz     30 June, 2016
    Twitter al1moz Alain M. from Avenuedesjeux:
I thank you for your kind attention
@GlenatBD     29 June, 2016
    Twitter GlenatBD Webmestre from Glénat:
thank you for your feedback

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WEB SECURITY VETERAN
1000+ Websites

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30+ Reports
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30+ Reports
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Patch Master
55% Patched
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65% Patched
Patch Lord
75% Patched

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Research Statistics



Total reports:6096
Total reports on VIP sites:134
Total patched vulnerabilities:1670
Recommendations received:29
Active since:27.06.2016

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  Recent Recommendations

    16 March, 2024
    TorutheRedFox:
Thanks for the help with the XSS vulnerability. It was a quick fix.
    12 March, 2024
    fsousa:
Pooja found an XSS vulnerability in one of our websites and ethically reported it to us, providing all the information required for us to fix the site.
All the communication was so fast, almost real time!
We thank you very much for the time and knowledge shared with us!
    7 March, 2024
    ramram:
Reported an XSS vulnerability in our website.
    7 March, 2024
    jasongiss:
Thank you for your responsible and helpful disclosure.

We really appreciated that you followed up shortly afterwards and suggested a better implementation of our fix.

I'm very impressed with your approach - thank you!
    27 February, 2024
    GTCoSWeb:
Dipu1a helped notify us of a possible link exposure so we could remedy it quickly to avoid any issues.