Emerald Red Team

ERT-CONFIG-005

Missing Referrer-Policy

LowA02:2025CWE-200

Why it matters

Security headers, TLS, email spoofing, takeovers. This check looks specifically for: missing referrer-policy.

How to fix it

Send Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin.

How we test it

Passive — runs in the free check, looks only at what a browser can see.

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