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High · 7.1 CVE-2021-41249 EUVD-2021-2300GHSA-59r9-6jp6-jcm7

XSS vulnerability in GraphQL Playground

Published Nov 4, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

GraphQL Playground is a GraphQL IDE for development of graphQL focused applications. All versions of graphql-playground-react older than graphql-playground-react@1.7.28 are vulnerable to compromised HTTP schema introspection responses or schema prop values with malicious GraphQL type names, exposing a dynamic XSS attack surface that can allow code injection on operation autocomplete. In order for the attack to take place, the user must load a malicious schema in graphql-playground. There are several ways this can occur, including by specifying the URL to a malicious schema in the endpoint query parameter. If a user clicks on a link to a GraphQL Playground installation that specifies a malicious server, arbitrary JavaScript can run in the user's browser, which can be used to exfiltrate user credentials or other harmful goals. If you are using graphql-playground-react directly in your client app, upgrade to version 1.7.28 or later.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
graphql graphql-playground < 1.7.28 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm graphql-playground-react < 1.7.28 1.7.28 GHSA-59r9-6jp6-jcm7

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