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Security-related question about a possible exposed credential #20

@Emma-NYL

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@Emma-NYL

Hello,

My name is Emma, I am conducting an academic study on possible credential exposure in public GitHub repositories.

While analyzing this repository, I found a string that may represent a credential. I'm including the code snippet below containing possible leakage. To avoid exposing sensitive information publicly, I marked the sensitive information.

Could you please help clarify whether the detected string is:

  1. a real credential, or
  2. a placeholder / example value?

Thank you for your time.


Code snippet (sensitive values masked):

require 'net/https'
require 'yaml'

########################
# Fill in your details #
########################
api_key = 'Your Wh****API key'
domain = 'google.com'

api_url = 'https://www.whoisxmlapi.com/whoisserver/WhoisService'

url = api_url + 
      '?domainName=' + ERB::Util.url_encode(domain) +

Thank you in advance for your time - I really appreciate it!

Sincerely,
Emma

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