An attacker with control of the contents of the TechDocs storage buckets is able to inject executable scripts in the TechDocs content that will be executed in the victim's browser when browsing documentation or navigating to an attacker provided link.

### Patches

This has been fixed in the 1.10.13 release of the `@backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend` package.

### References

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

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Affected Packages

npm @backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend

Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 1.10.13)

Related CVEs

CVE-2024-46976

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-5j94-f3mf-8685

Published

September 17, 2024 9:31 PM

Last Modified

September 17, 2024 9:31 PM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

npm

Primary Package

@backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: July 12, 2025 6:29 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.