Supabase: configuration mistakes that expose your sensitive data
> TL;DR: The Supabase mistakes that matter in your product or your product: incomplete RLS policies, overly open buckets, and weak organization boundaries.
Why Supabase deserves a special look
Supabase helps small product teams ship fast. In your product, that speed does not remove the need for very strict separation.
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The risk is not Supabase itself. The risk comes from incomplete RLS policies, document buckets that are too open, or access logic enforced in the frontend instead of in the data layer.
The most common mistakes
RLS exists but is incomplete
A policy is present, so the team assumes it is safe. In practice, it may authenticate a user but forget the organization boundary, manager scope, or employee-to-company relationship.
Document buckets are too permissive
Payslips, contracts, and supporting documents are sometimes less protected in storage than in the app.
Access logic lives in the frontend
The UI hides the right screens, but if the real protection is not enforced by the database or backend, the data can still be retrieved elsewhere.
What teams should review
Our view
For your product, the real question is not "did we enable RLS?" but "does our separation still hold when someone steps outside the happy path?"
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Sources
Editorial analysis based on official vendor, project, and regulator documentation.
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