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.
Published: 2025-07-09
Score: 10 Critical
EPSS: 14.4% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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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
History

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

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

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

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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'}

Subscriptions

Webbertakken Docusaurus-plugin-content-gists
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 : Deferred

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

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2025-53624

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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

Weaknesses