CORS for Nuxt
medium4 checks
CORS decides which origins may read your API responses. A wildcard turns an authenticated API into a public one.
What Nuxt must have
- Access-Control-Allow-Origin limited to known origins
- No wildcard combined with credentials
- No reflection of arbitrary Origin headers
- Preflight responses only allow the methods actually used
How to fix it
- 1Replace wildcards with an explicit allowlist
- 2Validate Origin before echoing it and reject unknown origins early
Nuxt context
Vue meta-framework with SSR, file-based routing and server routes.
Server routes run with full privileges; validate every input and never expose runtime config to the client.