Plaid webhook verification uses an ES256 JWT header, not a shared-secret HMAC over the body
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:52:51.470Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:52:51.470Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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Plaid signs webhooks with an ES256 JSON Web Token sent in the Plaid-Verification header. Verification means decoding the header to read its key ID, fetching the matching public key from the webhook verification key endpoint, verifying the JWT signature, comparing the token's body-hash claim against a SHA-256 of the raw request body, and finally checking that the issued-at claim is recent. There is no shared secret and no HMAC anywhere in the scheme.
Skipping the body-hash comparison leaves the endpoint accepting any body accompanied by a valid but unrelated token. Confirm by verifying a captured webhook offline. Cache verification keys by key ID with a bounded lifetime, since fetching one per delivery adds an API call to every webhook, and reject payloads failing any of the four checks.
Source: https://plaid.com/docs/api/webhooks/webhook-verification/
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