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Database

Http Missing Referrer Policy Header

Description

Detects when web pages are missing the Referrer-Policy HTTP security header. Without this header, sensitive URL information may be leaked when users navigate to other websites, potentially exposing internal paths, session tokens, or other sensitive data in the URL.

Weakness:

071 - Insecure or unset HTTP headers - Referrer-Policy

Category: Protocol Manipulation

Detection Strategy

    Checks only HTML responses from the web application

    Reports a vulnerability if the 'Referrer-Policy' header is missing from the HTTP response headers

    Ignores non-HTML responses (like images, JavaScript, CSS, etc.)