Ran a security audit on a client's Discord server last week and found the same 3 issues I see on almost every server that gets compromised or spammed into oblivion:

1. No rate limiting on bot commands. Anyone can spam a raid bot to flood channels or DM every member. A properly built moderation bot throttles commands per-user and auto-mutes on abuse patterns.

1. Overprivileged bot tokens. Most off-the-shelf bots run with Administrator permission because it's "easier." If that bot token ever leaks, your whole server is owned. Bots should only get the exact permissions they need.

1. No audit trail. When something goes wrong (mass ban, channel wipe, webhook spam) there's no log showing what happened or who/what triggered it. Custom bots should log every privileged action somewhere you control.

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Spent the last few years building sites and running pentests for early-stage founders, and the same 3 mistakes show up almost every time:

1. Auth endpoints with no rate limiting.

A login or password-reset route with no throttling is an open invite for credential stuffing. Takes 20 minutes to add, saves you from a breach headline.

2. Env secrets leaking into client-side bundles.

Happens constantly with fast-shipped Next.js/React apps — an API key gets imported into a component and shows up in the browser bundle. Always grep your build output before you ship.

3. IDOR on user-scoped resources.

If your API route is /api/orders/:id and you're not checking that the requesting user actually owns that order, anyone can enumerate IDs and pull other people's data. This is the #1 finding in almost every audit we run.

None of these are exotic. They're just easy to miss when you're moving fast pre-launch — which is exactly when founders are moving fastest.

If you're about to launch and haven't had a second pair of eyes on your app, it's worth the gut check before your users find the gaps for you.