Apollo Embedded Sandbox and Explorer vulnerable to CSRF via window.postMessage origin-validation bypass - @apollo/sandbox

Description

A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability was identified in Apollo’s Embedded Sandbox and Embedded Explorer.

The vulnerability arises from missing origin validation in the client-side code that handles window.postMessage events.

Recommendation

Update the @apollo/sandbox package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 2.7.2
• Patched version(s): 2.7.2

References

• GHSA-w87v-7w53-wwxv
• CVE-2025-59845
• CWE-346
• CWE-352
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6
• OWASP 2021-A7

Related Issues

• Apollo Embedded Sandbox and Explorer vulnerable to CSRF via window.postMessage origin-validation bypass - CVE-2025-59845
• @langchain/community affected by SSRF Bypass in RecursiveUrlLoader via insufficient URL origin validation - CVE-2026-26019
• Qwik City has a CSRF Protection Bypass via Content-Type Header Validation - CVE-2026-25151
• CleverTap Web SDK is vulnerable to DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via window.postMessage - CVE-2026-26862

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