CVE-2025-53624 – Docusaurus GitHub Gists Plugin Exposes Personal Access Tokens

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CVE-2025-53624 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Jul. 09, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-200
    Added Reference https://github.com/webbertakken/docusaurus-plugin-content-gists/commit/8d4230b82412edb215ddfa9e609d178510a5fe31
    Added Reference https://github.com/webbertakken/docusaurus-plugin-content-gists/security/advisories/GHSA-qf34-qpr4-5pph
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