What are the security risks of using Basic Authentication?

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Anubhav Sharma · Answer

What are the security risks of using Basic Authentication? Credentials are sent with every request (even cached).Base64 is not secure — it’s just encoded, not encrypted.Without HTTPS, credentials can be intercepted (man-in-the-middle attack).No session management or token expiration.

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