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CVE-2025-53624: docusaurus-plugin-content-gists Exposes GitHub Personal Access Token

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-07-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

• webbertakken docusaurus-plugin-content-gists: before 4.0.0

References

• https://github.com/webbertakken/docusaurus-plugin-content-gists/commit/8d4230b82412edb215ddfa9e609d178510a5fe31
• https://github.com/webbertakken/docusaurus-plugin-content-gists/security/advisories/GHSA-qf34-qpr4-5pph

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