Unwanted Response Headers

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The response contains headers which might leak sensitive information.

Misconfigured HTTP Headers (MHH)

Impact of the vulnerability

This information can be used to facilitate more sophisticated attacks on your application.

How this template works

APIs Selection

The template includes API selection filters that specify the desired response code range (between 200 and 300) and extract the URL from the response using the "urlVar" variable.

Execute request

The template uses a single request to modify the URL by replacing a placeholder with the extracted URL value. This allows for dynamic URL modification during the execution of the request.

Validation

The template includes validation rules to check if the response code falls within the desired range and if any of the specified unwanted response headers are present. The validation checks for the presence of specific header keys using a "contains_either" condition.

Frequently asked questions

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