Mailchimp API Key

ID

mailchimp_key

Severity

high

Vendor

Mailchimp

Family

API Token

Description

Mailchimp provides APIs for accessing marketing automation and email marketing services. The Mailchimp Key is used to authenticate API requests to access these services and resources.

Security

Any hardcoded Mailchimp Key is a potential secret reported by this detector. A leaked API Key gives full access to your Mailchimp account. You should protect them the same way you would protect your password.

Accidentally committing the key to a code repository could compromise your Mailchimp account, potentially leading to unauthorized access to email campaigns and subscriber lists.

Examples

 mailgun_token = "3244567890abcdsf1234567890abcatk-us1"

Mitigation / Fix

  1. Follow your policy for handling leaked secrets, which typically require revoking the secret in the target system(s). You need to generate a new key and update any integrations that use the original key. Login the dashboard as the owner of the key, go to API keys and click the Revoke button. Then click the Create A Key button to create the replacement key. Take note of its value to replace the leaked one.

  2. Remove the API Key from the source code or committed configuration file, and replace with the new. But do not hardcode keys again ! Instead, use environment variables, local files or secret vaults for passing the secret, as documented in How to Prevent Hard-Coded Secrets.

  3. Follow the vendor’s recommendations regarding protection of API Keys. Take the API Key security as reference.

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