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Credentials

Secrets and leaked credentials found by scans, your own pairs for the AI scans' login audit, and checking whether they still work.

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The Credentials page (sidebar, Library) holds the secrets and leaked credentials of a product: those found by secrets detection, by the OSINT credential-leakage stage and the Bruteforcer of Infrastructure Checks, and those you add yourself. You can also mark credentials to be tried by the AI scanners when they audit a login form. The page shows one product at a time; choose it in the selector at the top.

ScanSuite credentials list
The credentials list with source links

The list

ColumnWhat it shows
NameThe user name or e-mail. Click it for the full details, including the secret.
ProductThe product, or Unassigned for a team-wide credential.
SecretMasked. Click to reveal it in full and copy it, if your role may.
VerifiedWhether the credential is confirmed real (see the note below). Click the chip to toggle it.
AI scansWhether AI DAST and the AI Pentest try it on login forms. Click the chip to toggle it.
AssessmentFor a secret found in code: the secret type, with the reasoning on hover.
DetailsWhere it was found. For a secret in code, a link to the line in the repository.
ActionsThe shield approves it as the team's server account (see below); the bin deletes it.

Search credentials matches the user name and the description, never the secret value.

Adding credentials

  1. Choose the product in the selector and open Add / Edit Credential.

  2. Fill in the fields, or choose a file under Or upload a file.

  3. Click Submit.

    Check: the list reloads with the new credential. A file that cannot be read says Invalid JSON file with the reason.

FieldWhat it holdsDefault
Username/emailThe account.Empty
Password/hashThe secret.Empty
DescriptionFree text, shown in the Details column; for a link, the address.Empty
VerifiedMarks the credential as confirmed real.Off
Use in AI scansLets AI DAST and the AI Pentest try it on login forms.Off
Or upload a fileA JSON list, or a LeakPeek export (.xls or .xlsx). Uploaded credentials arrive unverified and not used in AI scans.None

To edit a credential, click its row (not its name): the form fills with it. Change the fields and click Submit. Add Credential clears the form for a new entry.

A JSON upload is a list of objects. Each needs a user (email, username or name) and a secret (password or hashed_password); database_name becomes the description. Entries without both are skipped.

credentials.json
[
  {"email": "j.doe@example.com", "password": "example-password", "database_name": "example-breach-2025"},
  {"username": "admin", "hashed_password": "$2y$10$abc...", "database_name": "forum-dump"}
]
Credentials input form
Adding credentials manually or in bulk

Acting on several credentials

Tick credentials, then use the toolbar:

ButtonWhat it does
Mark verified, Mark unverifiedSets the Verified mark.
Mark for AI scans, Unmark AI scansSets the AI scans mark.
Export to XLSXExports the ticked credentials, or all of the product when none is ticked. Reads Export selected with a selection.
Export verified to XLSXExports only the verified ones.
Delete selectedDeletes the ticked credentials.
Clear CredentialsDeletes every credential of the product.

Use your own credentials in the default-credential audit

When AI DAST or the AI Pentest finds a login form, it tries a built-in list of default and common credentials. Credentials you mark here are tried as well, on top of that list. Use it for the accounts you know a product's apps ship with, or for leaked pairs you want checked. Nothing is marked by default.

  1. Choose the product in the selector. Credentials of that product are used for its scans; team-wide credentials (Product: Unassigned) are used for every product.

  2. Tick the credentials and click Mark for AI scans, or tick Use in AI scans when adding one.

    Check: their AI scans chip reads True.

  3. Run AI DAST or an AI Pentest against the product's app.

  4. Check: a pair that logs in is reported as a finding of the scan, on its page and on the Vulnerabilities page.

A credential without a user name is skipped. Marking changes only what the AI scanners try; the scan's other settings are unchanged.

Login attempts can lock accounts on the target. Mark only credentials you are allowed to try against that application.

ScanSuite Credentials ticked in the list
Credentials ticked in the list: Mark for AI scans adds them to the default-credential audit

Verifying whether they still work

The Bruteforcer scanner of Infrastructure Checks tries the product's stored login and password pairs against the services it finds. A pair that works is logged in the scan log as Credentials confirmed!! and added to the list as a new, verified credential whose Details record where it worked.

Credential details
A credential detail view, with the source link back to the offending line
Two meanings of verified

A secret found in code is marked verified when the scanner, a detection rule or the AI model judges it to be a real credential rather than an example; the Assessment column shows the secret type, and its hint the reasoning. A login and password pair is marked verified when the Bruteforcer authenticated with it. Anyone who may change credentials can set the mark by hand.

A confirmed working credential is a live compromise. Rotate it before filing it.

Using a credential for authenticated scans

Credentials on this page are findings; scans never log in with them on their own (the AI scans mark above only adds them to the default-credential audit). When a found login should become the account that authenticated infrastructure checks use, click the shield, Approve as the team's server account for authenticated scans, and confirm. Scans queued from then on use it. The approved account can also be entered or replaced in the Server account card on the Scanning tab of the Teams page.

ScanSuite credential approve for scans action
The shield icon approves a found credential as the team server account

Who can do what

Credentials belong to the team: other teams never see them.

ActionRoles
See that a credential exists and where it was foundEvery role
Reveal a secret, open the details, exportVulnerability manager, Operator, Team admin
Add, edit, mark verified, mark for AI scansVulnerability manager, Operator, Team admin
Delete, Delete selected, Clear CredentialsOperator, Team admin
Approve as the team's server accountOperator, Team admin

See Teams and roles.

Last reviewed 2026-10-19