Referrer-Policy header present

A Referrer-Policy header stops the browser leaking full URLs (which can carry session tokens or internal paths) to third-party sites via the Referer header.

Security Mozilla Web Security: Referrer-Policy Advanced Security Audit
In short

No Referrer-Policy header — full URLs may leak to third-party sites. This check is fully automated — the scanner returns a definitive pass or fail.

How to fix it

Add a Referrer-Policy response header such as "strict-origin-when-cross-origin" or "no-referrer".

Standards this maps to

Frameworks that require this

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Severity

info — an advisory improvement.

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