Strapi Improper Rate Limiting vulnerability

Description

There is a rate limit on the login function of Strapi’s admin screen, but it is possible to circumvent it.

Recommendation

Update the @strapi/admin package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 4.12.1
• Patched version(s): 4.12.1

References

• GHSA-24q2-59hm-rh9r
• CVE-2023-38507
• CWE-770
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• mpregular vulnerable to prototype pollution - CVE-2025-57323
• DOMPurify allows Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - CVE-2025-26791
• Strapi allows Server-Side Request Forgery in Webhook function - CVE-2024-52588
• lite-server vulnerable to Denial of Service - CVE-2022-25940

Tags:

npm

@strapi/admin