CORS for Wix

medium4 checks

CORS decides which origins may read your API responses. A wildcard turns an authenticated API into a public one.

What Wix 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

  1. 1Replace wildcards with an explicit allowlist
  2. 2Validate Origin before echoing it and reject unknown origins early

Wix context

Hosted website builder.

Infrastructure is managed; your risk is third-party embeds and over-permissive site members/roles.