Discord Webhook

ID

discord_webhook

Severity

low

Vendor

Discord

Family

Generic secret

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.

Webhooks are a low-effort way to post messages to channels in Discord. They do not require a bot user or authentication to use.

Security

Any hardcoded Discord Webhook URL is a potential secret reported by this detector.

Examples

https://discord.com/api/webhooks/{webhook.id}/{webhook.token}

Mitigation / Fix

  1. Remove the URL 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).

  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.

  1. Check access logs to ensure that the secret was not used by unintended actors during the compromised period.

Reference

https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/webhook