Vite DOM Clobbering gadget found in vite bundled scripts that leads to XSS

Description

We discovered a DOM Clobbering vulnerability in Vite when building scripts to cjs/iife/umd output format. The DOM Clobbering gadget in the module can lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) in web pages where scriptless attacker-controlled HTML elements (e.g., an img tag with an unsanitized name attribute) are present.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): **>= 5.0.0, < 5.1.8

  < 3.2.11

  >= 5.2.0, < 5.2.14

  >= 5.3.0, < 5.3.6

  >= 5.4.0, < 5.4.6

  >= 4.0.0, < 4.5.4**

• Patched version(s): **5.1.8

  3.2.11

  5.2.14

  5.3.6

  5.4.6

  4.5.4**

References

• GHSA-64vr-g452-qvp3
• research.securitum.com
• scnps.co
• CVE-2024-45812
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Vite middleware may serve files starting with the same name with the public directory - CVE-2025-58751
• Vite's server.fs.deny bypassed with /. for files under project root - CVE-2025-46565
• Vite allows server.fs.deny to be bypassed with .svg or relative paths - CVE-2025-31486
• @sveltejs/kit vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting via tracked search_params - CVE-2025-32388

Tags:

npm

vite