MEDIUM6.5

GHSA-5j94-f3mf-8685

@backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend vulnerable to circumvention of cross site scripting protection

Quick fix

GHSA-5j94-f3mf-8685 — @backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install @backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend@1.10.13

Details

### Impact

An attacker with control of the contents of the TechDocs storage buckets is able to inject executable scripts in the TechDocs content that will be executed in the victim's browser when browsing documentation or navigating to an attacker provided link.

### Patches

This has been fixed in the 1.10.13 release of the `@backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend` package.

### References

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Affected packages

npm/@backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.10.13

Fixnpm install @backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend@1.10.13