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by jansommer 2115 days ago
Damn, didn't know $1750 was low. I got something similar for reporting an exploit to Microsoft, where opening an attached ICS/calendar entry in Outlooks web client allowed me to execute arbitrary JavaScript on outlook.microsoft.com as the current user. Should have asked for more!
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It sounds like you got $1750 for an XSS-equivalent attack. That's high for XSS.
Yes... yes you should have.
I wouldn't beat yourself up over it. There's probably room to develop an exploit valuation model that better helps to translate (time spent on research) + (X% of business/customer impact), where X is a pretty low figure, otherwise companies would never stay in business.

Don't undervalue the intangible permanence of doing the right thing, character outlasts cash come the grave.