diff --git a/constants/common.js b/constants/common.js
index 782d4eac..584f5e19 100644
--- a/constants/common.js
+++ b/constants/common.js
@@ -721,7 +721,9 @@ export const getLinksFromSitemap = async (
   browser,
   userDataDirectory,
   userUrlInput,
-  isIntelligent
+  isIntelligent,
+  username,
+  password
 ) => {
 
   const urls = {}; // dictionary of requests to urls to be scanned
@@ -731,11 +733,22 @@ export const getLinksFromSitemap = async (
   const addToUrlList = url => {
     if (!url) return;
     if (isDisallowedInRobotsTxt(url)) return;
+
+    // add basic auth credentials to the URL
+    (username && password)? url = addBasicAuthCredentials(url, username, password): url;
+
     const request = new Request({ url: encodeURI(url) });
     if (isUrlPdf(url)) {
       request.skipNavigation = true;
     }
     urls[url] = request;
+};
+
+  const addBasicAuthCredentials = (url, username, password) => {
+      const urlObject = new URL(url);
+      urlObject.username = username;
+      urlObject.password = password;
+      return urlObject.toString();
   };
 
   const calculateCloseness = (sitemapUrl) => {
diff --git a/crawlers/crawlSitemap.js b/crawlers/crawlSitemap.js
index eadd0bc7..41d0bd22 100644
--- a/crawlers/crawlSitemap.js
+++ b/crawlers/crawlSitemap.js
@@ -63,7 +63,10 @@ const crawlSitemap = async (
     }
   }
 
-  linksFromSitemap = await getLinksFromSitemap(sitemapUrl, maxRequestsPerCrawl, browser, userDataDirectory, userUrlInputFromIntelligent, fromCrawlIntelligentSitemap)
+  const username = basicAuthRegex.test(sitemapUrl) ? sitemapUrl.split('://')[1].split(':')[0] : null;
+  const password = basicAuthRegex.test(sitemapUrl) ? sitemapUrl.split(':')[2].split('@')[0] : null;
+  
+  linksFromSitemap = await getLinksFromSitemap(sitemapUrl, maxRequestsPerCrawl, browser, userDataDirectory, userUrlInputFromIntelligent, fromCrawlIntelligentSitemap, username, password)
   
   /**
    * Regex to match http://username:password@hostname.com
@@ -131,6 +134,13 @@ const crawlSitemap = async (
     requestList,
     preNavigationHooks: preNavigationHooks(extraHTTPHeaders),
     requestHandler: async ({ page, request, response, sendRequest }) => {
+
+      // remove basic auth credentials so it wont be displayed in report
+      if (isBasicAuth){
+        request.url ? request.url = `${request.url.split('://')[0]}://${request.url.split('@')[1]}` : null;
+        request.loadedUrl ? request.loadedUrl = `${request.loadedUrl.split('://')[0]}://${request.loadedUrl.split('@')[1]}` : null;
+      }
+      
       const actualUrl = request.loadedUrl || request.url;
 
       if (urlsCrawled.scanned.length >= maxRequestsPerCrawl) {
@@ -239,6 +249,10 @@ const crawlSitemap = async (
     },
     failedRequestHandler: async ({ request }) => {
 
+      if (isBasicAuth){
+        request.url ? request.url = `${request.url.split('://')[0]}://${request.url.split('@')[1]}` : null;
+      }
+
       // check if scanned pages have reached limit due to multi-instances of handler running
       if (urlsCrawled.scanned.length >= maxRequestsPerCrawl) {
         return;