nuxt vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in navigateTo if used after SSR

Description

The navigateTo function attempts to blockthe javascript: protocol, but does not correctly use API’s provided by unjs/ufo. This library also contains parsing discrepancies.

Recommendation

Update the nuxt package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 3.12.4
• Patched version(s): 3.12.4

References

• GHSA-vf6r-87q4-2vjf
• CVE-2024-34343
• CWE-79
• CWE-83
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• vue-template-compiler vulnerable to client-side Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) - CVE-2024-6783
• Nuxt DevTools vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS) - CVE-2025-52662
• Summernote vulnerable to cross-site scripting - CVE-2024-29504
• vue-i18n has cross-site scripting vulnerability with prototype pollution (GHSA-9r9m-ffp6-9x4v) 4 - CVE-2024-52809

Tags:

npm

nuxt