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HTML Comment Found

Remediation Task

Remove html comments

WASC Classification

Information Disclosure: Information Leakage

Affected Products

This issue may affect different types of products

Technical Description

Many web application programmers use HTML comments to help debug the application when needed. Some programmers tend to leave importand data, such as: filenames, old links, old code fragments, etc. An attacker who finds these comments can map the application's structure and files, expose hidden paths of the site and study the fragments of code to reverse engineer the application.

Fix Recommendation

Remove any html comments from the website.