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Expand Up @@ -111,6 +111,12 @@ From [this report](https://dynnyd20.medium.com/one-click-account-take-over-e5009

This also happened in [**this report**](https://dynnyd20.medium.com/one-click-account-take-over-e500929656ea).


### Bypass email verification for Account Takeover
- Attacker logins with [email protected] and verifies email upon signup.
- Attacker changes verified email to [email protected] (no secondary verification on email change)
- Now the website allows [email protected] to login and we have bypassed email verification of victim user.

### Old Cookies

As explained [**in this post**](https://medium.com/@niraj1mahajan/uncovering-the-hidden-vulnerability-how-i-found-an-authentication-bypass-on-shopifys-exchange-cc2729ea31a9), it was possible to login into an account, save the cookies as an authenticated user, logout, and then login again.\
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