The Docusaurus gists plugin adds a page to your Docusaurus instance, displaying all public gists of a GitHub user. docusaurus-plugin-content-gists versions prior to 4.0.0 are vulnerable to exposing GitHub Personal Access Tokens in production build artifacts when passed through plugin configuration options. The token, intended for build-time API access only, is inadvertently included in client-side JavaScript bundles, making it accessible to anyone who can view the website's source code. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.0.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0482.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendors Products
Webbertakken
  • Docusaurus-plugin-content-gists

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Vendors Products
Webbertakken
  • Docusaurus-plugin-content-gists
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-20874 docusaurus-plugin-content-gists vulnerability exposes GitHub Personal Access Token
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-qf34-qpr4-5pph docusaurus-plugin-content-gists vulnerability exposes GitHub Personal Access Token
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
https://github.com/webbertakken/docusaurus-plugin-content-gists/commit/8d4230b82412edb215ddfa9e609d178510a5fe31 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/webbertakken/docusaurus-plugin-content-gists/security/advisories/GHSA-qf34-qpr4-5pph cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.07286}

 epss

{'score': 0.05438}

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.05666}

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{'score': 0.07286}

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00043}

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{'score': 0.05666}

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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Description The Docusaurus gists plugin adds a page to your Docusaurus instance, displaying all public gists of a GitHub user. docusaurus-plugin-content-gists versions prior to 4.0.0 are vulnerable to exposing GitHub Personal Access Tokens in production build artifacts when passed through plugin configuration options. The token, intended for build-time API access only, is inadvertently included in client-side JavaScript bundles, making it accessible to anyone who can view the website's source code. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.0.
Title docusaurus-plugin-content-gists Exposes GitHub Personal Access Token
Weaknesses CWE-200
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 10, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-07-10T15:18:11.559Z

Reserved: 2025-07-07T14:20:38.388Z

Link: CVE-2025-53624

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-07-10T15:18:00.512Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-07-09T21:15:27.953

Modified: 2025-07-10T13:17:30.017

Link: CVE-2025-53624

cve-icon Redhat

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Updated: 2025-07-14T23:06:24Z