Security Hotspot issues are not returned in issue search SonarCloud Web API

[rameshsonar (Ramesh Arumugam)]

Version Used: SonarCloud Web API

Error Observed: Security Hotspot issues are not returned in the Web API and it was working earlier.

Steps to reproduce:

https://sonarcloud.io/api/issues/search?organization= &componentKeys=

It is returning only Code Smell, Bugs & Vulnerability issues with Severity but not returned Security Hot Spot issues.

Earlier it was returned without Severity details where we did the custom tagging.

Let me know how to retrieve the Security Hot Spot issues with rule information.

Potential Workaround: Fetching Manually.

[Colin]

Hey there.

Hotspots are no longer issues!

SonarCloud Community: we’ve elevated Security Hotspots to first-class citizen status

Hello SonarCloud Community, We’ve made some changes to SonarCloud pertaining to features in the security domain. Here’s an update on these changes to help you understand them and quickly integrate them into your organization. First, we’ve elevated Security Hotspots to first-class citizen status. They now belong to the Security domain alongside vulnerabilities. For vulnerabilities, there is no change, they are proper issues and require a fix. On the other hand, Security Hotspots, require a diff…

Checkout the api/hotspots domain of web services if really needed.