Storing Password in Local Storage

Description

The setPassword method (http://parseplatform.org/Parse-SDK-JS/api/2.9.1/Parse.User.html#setPassword) stores the user’s password in localStorage as raw text making it vulnerable to anyone with access to your localStorage. We believe this is the only time that password is stored at all.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 2.10.0
• Patched version(s): 2.10.0

References

• GHSA-wvh7-5p38-2qfc
• CWE-256
• OWASP 2021-A4

Related Issues

• parse is vulnerable to prototype pollution - CVE-2025-57324
• Prototype Pollution in node-forge - CVE-2020-7720
• nuxt Code Injection vulnerability - CVE-2023-3224
• QooxDoo XSS in Callback Parameter - CVE-2011-1714

Tags:

npm

parse