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AEM GraphQL: How Introspection Can Expose Your API
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Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) has revolutionized content management, and with the introduction of AEM GraphQL, the flexibility for querying content fragments and headless CMS operations has reached new heights. But with great flexibility comes a hidden security risk that many software engineers may overlook introspection.
Introspection can simplify development with AEM’s GraphQL APIs, but it also risks exposing key details about your API’s structure, making it more vulnerable to attacks. This post will discuss how introspection works in AEM GraphQL, the security issues it may pose, and ways to protect your application.
What Is Introspection in AEM GraphQL?
Simple, this allows you as client to query the structure of the Graphql API.
Basically, you can retrieve a detailed map of all available queries and types. This capability exists in AEM GraphQL as well and it’s useful for software engineers to explore the content fragment models and types exposes without API documentation.
