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Mark's Blog · May 7, 2023

Don't trust the first item in the X-Forwarded-For header

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Any security-related use of X-Forwarded-For (such as for rate limiting or IP-based access control) must only use IP addresses added by a trusted proxy. Using untrustworthy values can result in rate-limiter avoidance, access-control bypass, memory exhaustion, or other negative security or availability consequences. -- MDN's X-Forwarded-For article Short

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