[3] So, sensitive document sharing and whistleblowing is a prime target audience of the app.

Its initial release was hampered by RIAA and MPAA who wanted to limit peer-to-peer file sharing solutions.

[13] In October 2021, OnionShare patched two low risk vulnerabilities which were uncovered in a security advisory by IHTeam.

[14][11] In December 2021, Radically Open Security published their penetration report of the audit conducted on OnionShare.

The most impactful vulnerability found allowed to render arbitrary HTML inside the desktop application and a denial-of-service attack based on previously undisclosed Qt image parsing.