Publish a security.txt file on Vercel
Why it matters
A security.txt file tells researchers who to contact when they find a security problem on your site, so a report reaches you instead of being posted publicly or lost. It is a small plain text file defined in RFC 9116.
The fix
- Add the file to your project as public/.well-known/security.txt (for frameworks that use a different static folder, put it in that folder, so it ends up at /.well-known/security.txt in the build output).
- Commit and deploy, then open https://example.com/.well-known/security.txt. Vercel serves static files with a content type based on the extension, so a file named security.txt is sent as text/plain.
public/ .well-known/ security.txt
Contact: mailto:[email protected] Expires: 2026-12-31T23:59:59Z Preferred-Languages: en Canonical: https://example.com/.well-known/security.txt
The examples use example.com. Replace it with your own domain.
Related
- Reported by the security.txt check
- Serve security.txt from /.well-known/
- Serve security.txt over https
- Serve security.txt as text/plain with utf-8
- Add a Contact line to security.txt
- Fix the Contact value in security.txt
- Add an Expires line to security.txt
- Use an RFC 3339 date in the Expires line
- Renew the expired security.txt
- Renew security.txt before it expires
- Shorten the security.txt Expires date
- Fix repeated or insecure fields in security.txt
- Make the Canonical line match where the file is served
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