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by rekoil 1013 days ago
If you're hosting your applications on localhost it can be a security risk.

A blind SSRF vulnerability (with payload control) in your application could be used to gain full control over the reverse proxy resulting in the attacker gaining full unfettered access to your network.

If you're not using it (and you shouldn't be using such functionality on a production machine), then you don't need it and should disable it, see: https://owasp.org/Top10/A05_2021-Security_Misconfiguration/