What the heck is information disclosure?

Thexssrat
10 min readApr 18, 2021

Introduction

I feel like a lot of mystery surrounds this topic. A lot of people seem to wonder which data is sensitive when exposed. Some people seem to think every single API key disclosed in a JS file is a vulnerability but ofcourse this is not the case! Some API keys are supposed to be used by XHR requests and they are supposed to be public. When it comes to information disclosers we always have to keep in mind that what we see should be private and even then it’s not guaranteed to be a vulnerability. Depending on which viewpoint you take…

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