Bug bounty reports are your ticket to either top ranks on a platform or the lowest level of humiliation. Good bug bounty reports lead to good relationships with the bug bounty team and better payouts eventually. If the vulnerability report indicates the following signs then your report is indeed a good report:

• Faster response time from the security team responding to your request
• Better reputation and relationships with the security team
• Higher chances of getting a bigger bounty

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:

• Prerequisites of writing a bug bounty report
• Salient features of a bug bounty report
• Format of a bug bounty report
• Writing the title of a report
• Writing the description of a report
• Writing the proof of concept of a report
• Writing the exploitability of a report
• Writing the impact of a report
• Writing remediation
• Responding to the queries of the team