wrongsecrets

Vulnerable app with examples showing how to not use secrets

A new way for AI to search for data
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Java

What XERJ indexed

Snapshot

Whole repository

The whole repository at commit bcc5724e7d (2026-09-22).

Selected work

Anirban Ghosh
@kekubhai

“Add Challenge 73: Expose Secret in Agent Instruction Files”. 6 files, 195 lines in src/test, src/main, the project root.

Licence

The repository

AGPL-3.0

Checked by a person at the pinned commit.

The XERJ corpus

Approach only

The author agreed by email on 2026-10-20. Agents read it for how it works, not to copy it. Answers name the repo, the commit and the file:line.

in licence reviewnot in the hub yetsuggested use: approach only

hashicorp-vaultjavakubernetessecretssecrets-managementdevsecopssecurityaws

Example questions

The prompt

Paste it into your AI agent. It clones OWASP/wrongsecrets at the pinned commit and indexes it on your machine.

Search the GitHub repository OWASP/wrongsecrets with XERJ (https://hub.xerj.org/corpus/owasp--wrongsecrets).
Run these in a shell, in order, and check each result before the next:
1. xerj --help  (success: it prints usage). If xerj is missing: curl -fsSL https://xerj.org/get | sh
2. git clone https://github.com/OWASP/wrongsecrets wrongsecrets && git -C wrongsecrets checkout bcc5724e7ddcc7aa641103e8451e38fcf09f4fde
3. Start a local node and leave it running: xerj --insecure --data-dir ./xerj-data
4. xerj autoindex ./wrongsecrets --url http://127.0.0.1:9200 --prefix wrongsecrets --progress plain
5. xerj autoindex map --url http://127.0.0.1:9200
Then answer my question from the indexed files and cite the ax_path of every hit. Query syntax: https://xerj.org/llms.txt
Licence: AGPL-3.0. Read it for the approach only, do not copy code.

Related

Selected work and consent: the XERJ registry.