Is my Bolt app safe?
You cannot tell by using it. A Bolt app with a wide open database looks identical to a locked down one in the browser. The honest way to answer the question is to test the live app, which is what this page does.
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What it means
Anyone can read this table without logging in. That can be deliberate, such as reference data or a public directory, or a missing access policy; only you can say which. xlogs read one row's column names and kept none of its values.
Why AI tools cause it
Supabase only limits who can read a table once you turn on Row Level Security (RLS) and write access rules for it. An AI tool can build a working app without doing that, and a table without RLS, or with a policy that lets everyone read, answers anonymous requests.
How xlogs checks it
xlogs finds your public Supabase URL and anon key in your app (the same ones your frontend uses), asks the database for its table list, reads one row from each listed table as an anonymous user, and flags any that return rows. Hosted Supabase refuses that list to public keys, so on a hosted project the result says the tables could not be checked. Read-only: it never writes or deletes.
Why the risky parts are invisible to you
The dangerous issues live where you never look while building: the raw requests your app makes to Supabase, the keys buried in the JavaScript bundle, and the headers your server sends. All of that is hidden in the normal app view.
An attacker does not use your app the normal way. They read the shipped code and send direct requests to your database. The scan below does the harmless version of that and reports what they would find.
How to fix it
The goal: Row Level Security is enabled on every table, and each table returns rows only to the users it is meant for: a private table answers no anonymous request, and a table that is public on purpose has a read policy that says so.
- Decide whether the affected spot is meant to be readable without a login
- If it is not, enable Row Level Security (RLS) on the affected spot and add a policy so only the users allowed to see a row can read it
- If it is, keep it public on purpose, and record that decision so a review does not reopen it
- Do not switch on a restrictive policy for a table your public pages read without a replacement read policy, or those pages stop working
- Re-check that an anonymous request returns what you decided it should
In my app (the spot the scan shows): anyone can read this table; confirm that is deliberate. Please make this true: Row Level Security is enabled on every table, and each table returns rows only to the users it is meant for: a private table answers no anonymous request, and a table that is public on purpose has a read policy that says so. Steps: Decide whether the spot the scan shows is meant to be readable without a login; If it is not, enable Row Level Security (RLS) on the spot the scan shows and add a policy so only the users allowed to see a row can read it; If it is, keep it public on purpose, and record that decision so a review does not reopen it; Do not switch on a restrictive policy for a table your public pages read without a replacement read policy, or those pages stop working; Re-check that an anonymous request returns what you decided it should. Then tell me exactly what you changed, and do not print any secret values back to me or write one into a commit message, a pull request description or a log.
Then verify: After you decide and deploy, xlogs repeats the same anonymous read of each table the database lists and reports what comes back: a table you made private should no longer return rows, and one you keep public still will. If the table list is refused, it says the tables could not be checked.
Full step-by-step fix guide, with a copy-paste block for each AI tool →
Common questions
My Bolt app has no login. Does it still need security?
Yes. If your app stores anything in Supabase (sign ups, form entries, messages), that data can be readable even without a login screen, because the protection lives on the database, not the page. The scan checks exactly this.
What is the most common Bolt security mistake?
A Supabase database with Row Level Security off, which lets any anonymous request read your tables. The scanner checks for it whenever it finds a Supabase connection in your app.
