CVE-2021-43776

HIGH

Backstage auth-backend < 0.4.9 - Cross-Site Scripting via Malicious URL

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals. In affected versions the auth-backend plugin allows a malicious actor to trick another user into visiting a vulnerable URL that executes an XSS attack. This attack can potentially allow the attacker to exfiltrate access tokens or other secrets from the user's browser. The default CSP does prevent this attack, but it is expected that some deployments have these policies disabled due to incompatibilities. This is vulnerability is patched in version `0.4.9` of `@backstage/plugin-auth-backend`.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Product, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/backstage/backstage/tree/master/plugins/auth-backend

Scores

CVSS v3 7.4
EPSS 0.0031
EPSS Percentile 54.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (2)
backstage/plugin-auth-backend 0 - 0.4.9npm
linuxfoundation/auth_backend < 0.4.9
Published Nov 26, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026