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GHSA-w7fj-336r-vw49

GitHub Security Advisory

Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in @backstage/plugin-auth-backend

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH Has CVE

Advisory Details

### Impact
This vulnerability allows a malicious actor to trick another user into visiting a vulnerable URL that executes an XSS attack. This attack can potentially allow the attacker to exfiltrate access tokens or other secrets from the user's browser. The default CSP does prevent this attack, but it is expected that some deployments have these policies disabled due to incompatibilities.

### Patches
This is vulnerability is patched in version `0.4.9` of `@backstage/plugin-auth-backend`.

### For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

* Open an issue in the [Backstage repository](https://github.com/backstage/backstage)
* Visit our chat, linked to in [Backstage README](https://github.com/backstage/backstage)

Affected Packages

npm @backstage/plugin-auth-backend
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 0.4.9)

Related CVEs

Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-w7fj-336r-vw49
Published
December 1, 2021 6:29 PM
Last Modified
December 1, 2021 2:35 PM
CVSS Score
7.5 /10
Primary Ecosystem
npm
Primary Package
@backstage/plugin-auth-backend
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: July 12, 2025 6:29 AM

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