Exposed API keys

Exposed API Keys / Token OAuth

Introduction

Sometimes in a web application, an attacker can find some exposed API keys / token which can lead to financial loss to a company.

How to find

  1. Find API keys / token by looking at the JavaScript code on the website

  2. Find API keys / token by checking the request / response header

Tools

References

  • keyhacks is a repository which shows quick ways in which API keys leaked by a bug bounty program can be checked to see if they're valid. There is 79 list of how to check the validity of the API keys

  • all-about-apikey is a repository of detailed information about API Key / Oauth tokens. The repository contain description API key, HTTP request, the response if the API key is valid / no, regex, and the example

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