Discord Bot Token

ID

discord_bot_token

Severity

low

Vendor

Discord

Family

API Token

Description

Discord is a free voice, video, and text chat app that’s used by tens of millions of people to talk and hang out with their communities and friends.

People use Discord daily to talk about many things, ranging from art projects and family trips to homework and mental health support. It’s a home for communities of any size, but it’s most widely used by small and active groups of people who talk regularly.

They provide an API so bots can read and send text messages, join VoIP discussions and manage servers.

Security

Any hardcoded Discord API Key is a potential secret reported by this detector.

Accidentally checking-in the key to source control repositories could compromise your Discord account.

Suspicious activity could be detected by checking the Logs.

Examples

bot.run('YwIYCNFmberWctTsmgs3A8eA.uRHQPq.Xb1Mk2nEhe-4iUcrGOuegj57zMC')

Mitigation / Fix

  1. Remove the API Key from the source code or committed configuration file.

  2. Follow your policy for handling leaked secrets, which typically require revoking the secret in the target system(s). API Key revocation can be handled from the developer portal.

  3. If under a git repository, you may remove unwanted files from the repository history using tools like git filter-repo or BFG Repo-Cleaner. You may follow the procedure listed here for GitHub.

You should consider any sensitive data in commits with secrets as compromised.

Remember that secrets may be removed from history in your projects, but not in other users' cloned or forked repositories.

Reference

https://discord.com/developers/docs/intro