Contrary to what the doc claims, CORS is no defence
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The file content/docs/operating/security.md contains the following passage:
For non-mutating endpoints, you may wish to set CORS headers such as
Access-Control-Allow-Origin
in your reverse proxy to prevent XSS.
However, this passage is problematic, because CORS is no defence against XSS. In fact, CORS is no defence at all; quite the opposite, since its goal is to relax the Same-Origin Policy.
This passage should be reworded or even removed.