reCAPTCHA Key

recaptcha_google

Severity

high

Vendor

reCAPTCHA

Family

API Token

Description

reCAPTCHA key is used to verify that the request sent to a website is not done by a bot.

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

Accidentally checking-in the keys to source control repositories could compromise your reCAPTCHA account.

Alerts can be automatically triggered by Google if they find suspicious activity.

apikey = 6LcwTPMZAAAAAIEoRQ2fm2cVMWWfvpeUJQX_CgcZ

Remove the Key from the source code or committed configuration file.
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 Google developers console.
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.