CWE-200
ISO27001-A.14.2.5
OWASP 2013-A6
OWASP 2017-A6

Cross-site Referrer Leakage through usage of no-referrer-when-downgrade in Referrer-Policy

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Summary

Invicti detected that no-referrer-when-downgrade is used in the Referrer-Policy declaration.

If a comma-separated referrer-policy is specified in the header, fallback policy is used only if the browser does not support the set referrer-policy, which may cause Cross-site Referrer Leakage.

Impact

Referrer leakage is possible between two sites if they use either same or a higher protocol.

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