Acknowledgements

The BBC wishes to thank the following Security Researchers who have participated in our Vulnerability Disclosure Programme

2026

Researcher Vulnerability  Date 
Riski Permana Insecure Design Mar 2026
Smaran Chand Insecure Design Mar 2026
Shreyash Ghare Information Disclosure Mar 2026
Tharun Avula Insecure Design Feb 2026
Musa Hamonangan Lubis Broken Access Control Feb 2026
Yaswanth Sai Boligarla Vulnerable and Outdated Components Jan 2026
Sanjith Roshan U Information Disclosure Jan 2026
Musa Hamonangan Lubis Insecure Design Jan 2026
Aryan Chougule (COEP Cybercell) Information Disclosure Jan 2026

 

2025

Researcher Vulnerability Date
Hepin Radadiya Injection Dec 2025
Gurudatt Choudhary Injection Nov 2025
Ghifari Azhar Injection Nov 2025
x24_HAVOC (NEPAL) Injection Nov 2025
Musa Hamonangan Lubis Injection Nov 2025
Whiterose.svg Broken Access Control Oct 2025
Gurudatt Choudhary Broken Access Control Oct 2025
Surya Arigela Security Misconfiguration Oct 2025
MD KIMIA SADAT Vulnerable and Outdated Components Oct 2025
Adhithya S D Broken Access Control Oct 2025
x24_HAVOC Injection Sept 2025
Sakil Hasan Saikat Broken Access Control Sept 2025
Hepin Radadiya Broken Access Control Sept 2025
Mihir Pankhawala Broken Access Control August 2025
Rohit Yadav (rohsec) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) July 2025
Sushil Phuyal (1337mickey) Injection July 2025
Miguel Llamazares Injection June 2025
Zer0 Ways Broken Access Control May 2025
Pranav R Wattamwar Injection May 2025
Prabin Joshi Injection May 2025
Kanhaiya Sharma Injection May 2025
Rajan Kshedal Injection May 2025
Rajan Kshedal Injection April 2025
Rajan Kshedal Injection April 2025
Wren/Blue Wood Broken Access Control April 2025
x24_HAVOC ( NEPAL ) Injection April 2025
Karthikeyan C Insecure Design April 2025
Parth Narula Insecure Design April 2025
Ajay Anand CTG Insecure Design April 2025
X24_CAIRO (NEPAL) Injection April 2025
Varad P Mene Insecure Design April 2025
Varad P Mene Insecure Design April 2025
SURAJ BHATTARAI (Nepal) Insecure Design April 2025
cyberritzzz Insecure Design March 2025
cyberritzzz Insecure Design March 2025
Gurudatt Choudhary Insecure Design March 2025
SURAJ BHATTARAI (Nepal) Insecure Design March 2025
Vishal Kumar Security Misconfiguration March 2025
Sushil Phuyal (1337mickey) Injection March 2025
Sushil Phuyal (1337mickey) Injection March 2025
Gurudatt Choudhary Injection March 2025
Varad P Mene Insecure Design March 2025
Gurudatt Choudhary Vulnerable and Outdated Components March 2025
Noor Mohammad Gagguturi Vulnerable and Outdated Components February 2025
Atharv Rokade (Lordofheaven) Insecure Design February 2025
Siddesh Ningappa Insecure Design February 2025
Raman R Mohurle Insecure Design February 2025
MPGODMATCH...! Identification and Authentication Failure February 2025
defalt47 Insecure Design February 2025
SARATHY D Insecure Design February 2025
Gurudatt Choudhary Broken Access Control February 2025
Varad P Mene Data Integrity Failure February 2025
Varad P Mene Data Integrity Failure January 2025
Billy Sheppard Injection January 2025
Mohammed Nafeed (H4cker Nafeed) Broken Access Control January 2025

2024

Researcher Vulnerability Date
Navreet Insecure Design Dec 2024
Raman R Mohurle Insecure Design Dec 2024
Gurudatt Choudhary Vulnerable and Outdated Components Dec 2024
Arif Dudekula Vulnerable and Outdated Components Dec 2024
Renganathan Insecure Design Dec 2024
Bikram Kharal(@themarkib) Security Misconfiguration Nov 2024
Oum V Zarkar Insecure Design Nov 2024
Kasani ShivaTeja Injection Nov 2024
Richard Hyunho Im (@richeeta) Broken Access Control Nov 2024
Harsh N Navgale Injection Nov 2024
Raman R Mohurle Injection Nov 2024
Althaf Ashraf Insecure Design Oct 2024
Late - Khadananda Phuyal Injection Oct 2024
ராஜ்குமார் சண்முகம் (Rajkumar Shanmugam) Broken Access Control Oct 2024
Rajkumar Shanmugam Vulnerable and Outdated Components Sept 2024
Aashutosh Devkota ( Nepal ) Insecure Design August 2024
Bruno Garcia Injection August 2024
Chinmaya Rana Broken Access Control August 2024
Guilherme Gonçalves Insecure Design August 2024
Subhankar Paul Security Misconfiguration July 2024
Aadesh Jain Vulnerable and Outdated Components July 2024
Kartik Garg Vulnerable and Outdated Components July 2024
Karthikeyan V (Cappricio Securities) Security Misconfiguration July 2024
Claudio Rizzo Injection July 2024
Hritom Bhattacharya Insecure Design July 2024
Vaibhav Jain Injection June 2024
Omri Inbar Insecure Design June 2024
Ariel Rachamim Insecure Design June 2024
Vedant Roy Insecure Design June 2024
Abhith Damodaran Injection May 2024
Vikas Anand (kingcoolvikas) Security Misconfiguration May 2024
Rohit Yadav (rohsec) Broken Access Control May 2024
Harish Security Misconfiguration May 2024
Yash kulkarni Security Misconfiguration May 2024
Harsh N Navgale Sensitive Information Disclosure May 2024
Sanjith Roshan U Sensitive Information Disclosure May 2024
Vikas Anand Security Misconfiguration April 2024
Shivam Dhingra Security Misconfiguration April 2024
Raman R Mohurle Security Misconfiguration April 2024
Pruthu Raut Sensitive Information Disclosure April 2024
@karthithehacker Security Misconfiguration April 2024
Nikhil Rane Injection April 2024
Kartik Garg Information Disclosure April 2024
Abid Ahmad Security Misconfiguration March 2024
Chinmaya Rana Insecure Design March 2024
Anže Jenšterle (CraftByte) Broken Access Control March 2024
Anurag Mewar Information Disclosure February 2024
Vikas Anand Security Misconfiguration February 2024
NITYA NAND JHA(Shunux) Injection February 2024
Vinit Lakra Broken Authentication February 2024
Soham Lad Injection January 2024
Raman R Mohurle Security Misconfiguration January 2024

 

2023

Researcher Vulnerability Date
Vishak V Security misconfiguration Dec 2023
Rajdip Dey Sarkar Injection Dec 2023
Brijesh (Redhet) Insecure Design Dec 2023
Aditya Singh Injection Dec 2023
Noor Mohammad Gagguturi Injection Dec 2023
Usman Idris Chougule Injection Dec 2023
Mohamed Akees (Sri Lanka) Injection Dec 2023
K.Rajesh Sagar Security Misconfiguration Dec 2023
Miguel Segovia Gil Data Integrity Dec 2023
Vibhor Sharma Insecure Design Nov 2023
Yash kulkarni Broken Access Control Nov 2023
Yash kulkarni Broken Access Control Nov 2023
Yash kulkarni Insecure Design Nov 2023
Yash Kulkarni Broken Access Control Nov 2023
Abhith Damodaran Injection Nov 2023
Mayur Pandya (GDSCPU, Cybertalk) Insecure Design Nov 2023
Yash Kulkarni Broken Access Control Nov 2023
Mayur Pandya (Parul University, Cybertalk) Injection Oct 2023
Mayur Pandya (Parul University, Cybertalk) Data Integrity Oct 2023
Mayur Pandya (Parul University, Cybertalk) Insecure Design Oct 2023
Yash Kulkarni Broken Access Control Oct 2023
white_rose_0101 Broken Access Control Oct 2023
Milan Jain Injection Oct 2023
Yash Kulkarni Insecure Design Oct 2023
Vinit Lakra Security Misconfiguration Oct 2023
Shivam Sharma Injection Oct 2023
Durvesh Kolhe Outdated Components Sept 2023
Brijesh (Redhet) Injection Sept 2023
Martin van Wingerden Security Misconfiguration Sept 2023
Parag Bagul Outdated Components Sept 2023
Nilabh Rajpoot Outdated Components Aug 2023
Mohamed Ibrahim Injection Aug 2023
Banavath Aravind Insecure Design July 2023
Shivam Sharma Injection July 2023
Banavath Aravind Injection July 2023
Ankit Kapoor Security Misconfiguration June 2023
Nasser Hassen Altowairqi Injection June 2023
Ramansh Sharma Broken Access Control June 2023
Parag Bagul Outdated Components June 2023
Ramansh Sharma Insecure Design June 2023
Roshan Poudel Insecure Design May 2023
Joshua Provoste Injection May 2023
Josef Hassan Outdated Components May 2023
Ahmed Hassan Outdated Components May 2023
M7arm4n Injection May 2023
Vedant Shinde Injection April 2023
Jose Carlos Exposito Bueno Security Misconfiguration April 2023
Ayush Aggarwal Injection April 2023
Mohd.Den Compton Insecure Design March 2023
Abir Khan Hridoy Injection March 2023
Pedro Cardoso Injection March 2023
Prial Islam Insecure Design March 2023
Siddharth Pasalapudi Broken Access Control March 2023
Momen Eldawakhly (Cyber Guy) Broken Access Control March 2023
Karthik U.J. Injection March 2023
Abdalla Ali Data Integrity March 2023
Łukasz Tlałka Injection March 2023
Billy Sheppard Injection March 2023
Akshay Ravi Injection Feb 2023
Pratham Rajgor Server-Side Request Forgery Feb 2023
Vijay Mahajan Server-Side Request Forgery Jan 2023
Ayush Aggarwal Injection Jan 2023
Vedavyasan S Injection Jan 2023
Pratham Rajgor Injection Jan 2023
Banavath Aravind Injection Jan 2023
Billy Sheppard & Petter Olsen Data Integrity Jan 2023
Vishal Vishwakarma Injection Jan 2023
Benavath Aravind Broken Access Control Jan 2023
Sebin Thomas Injection Jan 2023

 

2022

Researcher Vulnerability Date
Narayanan M Insecure Design Dec 2022
Ramansh Sharma Injection Dec 2022
Banavath Aravind Injection Nov 2022
Milan Jain (scriptkiddie) Injection Nov 2022
Banavath Aravind Data Integrity Nov 2022
Abdalla Ali Injection Oct 2022
Ayush Aggarwal Injection Sept 2022
Ahmad Henry Mansour Injection Aug 2022
Jeyabalaji Insecure Design July 2022
Toby Davenport Injection July 2022
Nitesh Singh Data Integrity July 2022
Ayush Aggarwal Injection July 2022
James Buckley Broken Access Control July 2022
Felipe Gabriel Renzi Data Integrity Jun 2022
Dzmitry Smaliak Injection May 2022
Jordan Glover Data Integrity Apr 2022
Alana Witten Broken Access Control Mar 2022
Kevin Yehezkiel Gurning Injection Mar 2022
Toby Davenport Insecure Design Feb 2022
Toby Davenport Information Disclosure Jan 2022
Toby Davenport Information Disclosure Jan 2022
Vikas Srivastava Security Misconfiguration Jan 2022

 

2021

Researcher Vulnerability

Date

Ayush Aggarwal Injection Dec 2021
Vikas Srivastava Remote Code Execution Dec 2021
Crispin JeyaPrakash.A (B1ackHood) Remote Code Execution Dec 2021
Ishan Vyas Remote Code Execution Nov 2021
Rohit Yadav Remote Code Execution Nov 2021
Karthik UJ Remote Code Execution Nov 2021
Ai Ho (@j3ssiejjj) Remote Code Execution Nov 2021
Mohd.Danish Abid Data Integrity Nov 2021
Abhijith A Data Integrity Nov 2021
Supras Server-Side Request Forgery Oct 2021
Rohit Yadav Security Misconfiguration Oct 2021
Pranav K Security Misconfiguration Oct 2021
Roshan Poudél Insecure Design Oct 2021
Nessim Jerbi (Tunisia) Insecure Design Oct 2021
Ayush Aggarwal Security Misconfiguration Sept 2021
Momen Ali Eldawakhly (Cyber Guy) Data Integrity Aug 2021
Momen Ali Eldawakhly (Cyber Guy) Broken Access Control Aug 2021
Momen Ali Eldawakhly (Cyber Guy) Broken Access Control Aug 2021
Nourhan Ali Dief (Cyber Girl) Data Integrity Aug 2021
Shubham Garg Injection Aug 2021
Momen Ali Eldawakhly (Cyber Guy) Injection Aug 2021
Momen Ali Eldawakhly (Cyber Guy) Vulnerable Components Aug 2021
Nourhan Ali Ibrahim Dief Data Integrity Aug 2021
Gourab Sadhukhan Data Integrity Aug 2021
Abhijith A Broken Access Control Aug 2021
Anirudh Srinivas Balaji Data Integrity Aug 2021
Mohit Khemchandani Data Integrity Aug 2021
Raajesh.G Vulnerable Components Aug 2021
Michele Romano Injection Aug 2021
Shubham Garg Security Misconfiguration Aug 2021
Jefferson Gonzales (Gonz) Injection Aug 2021
Kabeer Saxena Vulnerable Components Aug 2021
Prathamesh Surekha Prakash Pawar Injection Aug 2021
Nayanjyoti Roy Security Misconfiguration July 2021
Abhijeet Sarkar Insecure Design July 2021
Roshan Poudél Insecure Design July 2021
Rishabh Shrivastava Data Integrity July 2021
Roshan Poudél Insecure Design July 2021
Kiran Ghimire (From Nepal) Data Integrity July 2021
Chandan Rai Insecure Design July 2021
Mayank Mukhi Outdated Components July 2021
Luca Consolati Injection June 2021
Chirag Ketan Prajapati Injection June 2021
Ishan Vyas Injection June 2021
Sheikh Rishad Broken Access Control June 2021
Avdi Zumeray Broken Access Control June 2021
Mike Ralphson Data Integrity June 2021
Pratik Khalane Broken Access Control June 2021
Anirudh Makkar Broken Access Control June 2021
Mohamed Abdellatif Jaber Injection May 2021
Bartłomiej Bergier Injection May 2021
Diego Bernal Adelantado Security Misconfiguration May 2021
Enes Saltik Vulnerable Components May 2021
Divya Singh Injection April 2021
Faiyaz Ahmad Broken Access Control April 2021
Roshan Poudél Vulnerable Components March 2021
Ai Ho Data Integrity March 2021
Satrya Wira Yudha Insecure Design March 2021
Ai Ho Security Misconfiguration March 2021
Ahmed Elmalky Data Integrity March 2021
Bijay Silwal Injection March 2021
Eslam Sayed(eslamXxX) Injection March 2021
Abhinav Sharma Security Misconfiguration March 2021
Ganesh Bagaria Injection March 2021
Colin Barr Security Misconfiguration March 2021
Buğra Eskici Security Misconfiguration February 2021
Bartłomiej Bergier Injection February 2021
Harsh Parekh Data Integrity February 2021
Enes Saltik Vulnerable Components January 2021
Bartłomiej Bergier Injection January 2021
0xblackbird Data Integrity January 2021
Nitesh Singh Injection January 2021
Erdoğan Yağız Şahin Security Misconfiguration January 2021

2020

Researcher Vulnerability

Date

Osama Khan Injection December 2020
Alfred Nirmal Data Integrity December 2020
Taha Bıyıklı Injection December 2020
Tayfun AKYILDIZ Injection December 2020
René de Sain Injection November 2020
Tom Smith Vulnerable Components November 2020
Alexandar Thangavel Security Misconfiguration November 2020
Sourajeet Majumder Insecure Design November 2020
Netanel Rubin Data Integrity November 2020
Shaun Budding Injection November 2020
Pratik Dabhi Vulnerable Components November 2020
Brijesh Pandya Injection November 2020
Pentest People Injection November 2020
Shaikh Yaser Arafat Vulnerable Components November 2020
Sanem Sudheendra Vulnerable Components November 2020
Gaurav Mishra Injection November 2020
Pritam Mukherjee Injection November 2020
Parshwa PareshKumar Bhavsar Injection October 2020
Azizul Hakim Insecure Design October 2020
Kasper Karlsson Injection October 2020
Benjamin Barnes (Magna) Injection October 2020
Roberto Urbanus Injection October 2020
Pritam Dash Injection October 2020
Lucio Sá Injection October 2020
Suraj Disoja Injection October 2020
Bharat (Mr.NOOB) Multiple Vulnerabilities October 2020
Nathan Jones Data Integrity October 2020
Ed Williams Insecure Design October 2020
Junting Zhu Injection September 2020
Gal Nagli Data Integrity September 2020
Jeya Seelan S Data Integrity September 2020
George Omnet Server side request forgery September 2020
Devang Karelia Injection September 2020
Ashley King Injection September 2020
Sumit Grover Injection September 2020
Daniel Lidén Injection September 2020
Alessandro Christo Rumampuk Injection September 2020
Vikas Srivastava, India Insecure Design August 2020
d3vpoo1 Server-Side Request Forgery August 2020
Keshav Malik Insecure Design August 2020
Abhinav P Data Integrity August 2020
Gamer7112 Injection August 2020
Shivang Trivedi Data Integrity August 2020
Tommaso De Ponti Insecure Design July 2020
Gourab Sadhukhan Broken Access Control July 2020
Prakhar Mittal Broken Access Control July 2020
Florian Kunushevci Data Integrity July 2020
Parag Dave Security Misconfiguration July 2020
Hassan Cypher Data Integrity July 2020
Pankaj Kumar Thakur (Nepal) Injection July 2020
Prasoon Gupta Security Misconfiguration June 2020
Utkarsh Agrawal Data Integrity June 2020
Joseph Buta Data Integrity June 2020
Sumit Grover Security Misconfiguration June 2020
Pethuraj M Data Integrity May 2020
Subhamoy Guha Insecure Design May 2020
Akash Basnet Insecure Design May 2020
Ahmad Halabi Vulnerable Components May 2020
Vivek Singh Security Misconfiguration April 2020
Anurag Muley Insecure Design April 2020
Diego Bernal Adelantado Injection April 2020
Lütfü Mert Ceylan Injection April 2020
Syed Muhammad Asim Injection February 2020
Govind palakkal Security Misconfiguration January 2020
Abhaychandra Chede- Tarun Mahour Data Integrity January 2020
Noman Shaikh Injection January 2020
Mike Ralphson Data Integrity January 2020
Conny Dahlgren Injection January 2020
Mohamad Mohsin Shekh Data Integrity January 2020
Raphael Karger Injection January 2020
Robbie Wiggins Vulnerable Components January 2020
Nathan Hrncirik Injection January 2020
Shivam Pandey Insecure Design January 2020

2019

Researcher Vulnerability

Date

Onkar Sonawane Data Integrity December 2019
Darkprincesri Injection December 2019
Chippa Vijay Kumar Injection December 2019
Alessandro Christo Rumampuk Injection November 2019
Sourajeet Majumder Insecure Design October 2019
Safak Aslan Injection October 2019
Diego Bernal Adelantado Injection September 2019
Akhil George Security Misconfiguration August 2019
Amey Takekar Injection July 2019
Parker Daudt Injection May 2019
Tinu Tomy Injection May 2019
Wasim Shaikh Injection May 2019
Acelakshit verma Injection May 2019
Angel Tsvetkov Injection April 2019
Pethuraj M Injection April 2019
Jayateertha G Injection April 2019
Dhrudeep Patel Injection March 2019
Wai Yan Aung Injection March 2019
Vineet Kumar Security Misconfiguration March 2019
Anjali Patil Injection March 2019
Ashish Kunwar Data Integrity March 2019
EdOverflow Injection March 2019
Nathan Mahdavi Broken Access Control February 2019
B. Franklin Security Misconfiguration February 2019
Nicholas Dine Injection February 2019
Anurag Jain Broken Access Control January 2019
Damian Schwyrz Injection January 2019

2018

Researcher Vulnerability Date
Dan Kelley Injection December 2018
Varun Thorat Injection December 2018
Eric Head Injection November 2018
Cyberanteater Injection November 2018
Avinash Jain Injection November 2018
Pranshu Tiwari Injection November 2018
Aldo Moreno Injection October 2018
Diego Moicano Injection October 2018
Trung Nguyen Security Misconfiguration October 2018
Hrishikesh Panse Injection October 2018
Sébastien Kaul Security Misconfiguration October 2018
Richard Strnad Security Misconfiguration September 2018
Puneet Kumar Maurya Security Misconfiguration September 2018
JubaBaghdad Injection September 2018
Dhiraj Mishra Insecure Design September 2018
Efkan Gökbas Data Integrity September 2018
Kunal Bahl Insecure Design September 2018
Saubhagya Srivastava Insecure Design September 2018
Kenan GUMUS Injection September 2018
B.Dhiyaneshwaran Data Integrity September 2018
Alfie Njeru Broken Access Control August 2018
Michael Skelton Security Misconfiguration August 2018
Robbie Wiggins Security Misconfiguration August 2018
Thijs Baart Injection August 2018
Sean Roesner Injection August 2018
Sam Gilder Insecure Design August 2018
Nicolas Francois Injection August 2018
Zeeshan Khalid Injection August 2018
Joby John Data Integrity August 2018
Christoph Kisfeld Injection August 2018
Pedro Cardoso Injection August 2018
Naveen.v Data Integrity August 2018
Deepak R Pandey Broken Access Control August 2018
Ashutosh Barot Data Integrity July 2018

2017

Researcher Vulnerability

Date

Shwetabh Suman Injection February 2017

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