chore(deps): update devdependency nuxt to v4.5.1 [security] by renovate[bot] · Pull Request #219 · nuxt/examples

renovate · 2026-05-19T16:20:11Z

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
nuxt (source)	`4.1.0` → `4.5.1`

Nuxt: Reflected XSS in `navigateTo()` external redirect

CVE-2026-45669 / GHSA-fx6j-w5w5-h468

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Summary

navigateTo() with external: true generates a server-side HTML redirect body containing a <meta http-equiv="refresh"> tag. The destination URL is only sanitized by replacing " with %22, leaving <, >, &, and ' unencoded. An attacker who can influence the URL passed to navigateTo(url, { external: true }) can break out of the content="…" attribute and inject arbitrary HTML/JavaScript that executes under the application's origin.

This is a different root cause from CVE-2024-34343 (GHSA-vf6r-87q4-2vjf), which addressed javascript: protocol bypass. The issue here is triggered by any valid URL containing >.

Impact

Applications that pass user-controlled input to navigateTo(url, { external: true }) — typically via a ?next= / ?redirect= query parameter used for post-login or "return to" flows — are vulnerable to reflected cross-site scripting. The injected script runs in the context of the application's origin during the server-rendered redirect response, before the meta-refresh fires.

Details

In packages/nuxt/src/app/composables/router.ts, the SSR redirect path builds an HTML response body with only " percent-encoded in the destination URL:

const encodedLoc = location.replace(/"/g, '%22')
nuxtApp.ssrContext!['~renderResponse'] = {
status: sanitizeStatusCode(options?.redirectCode || 302, 302),
body: `<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=${encodedLoc}"></head></html>`,
headers: { location: encodeURL(location, isExternalHost) },
}

The Location header is normalised through encodeURL() (which uses the URL constructor and correctly percent-encodes attribute-significant characters). The HTML body uses a narrower sanitiser. That mismatch is the root cause.

Proof of concept

Global middleware that forwards a query parameter to navigateTo:

// middleware/redirect.global.ts
export default defineNuxtRouteMiddleware((to) => {
const next = to.query.next as string | undefined
if (next) {
 return navigateTo(next, { external: true })
}
})

Request:

GET /?next=https://evil.example/x><img src=x onerror=alert(document.domain)>

Response body:

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://evil.example/x><img src=x onerror=alert(document.domain)>"></head></html>

The > after evil.example/x terminates the content="…" attribute, and the <img onerror> tag executes JavaScript in the application's origin before any redirect
occurs.

Patches

Fixed in nuxt@4.4.6 and nuxt@3.21.6 by #35052. The fix percent-encodes the full set of HTML-attribute-significant characters (&, ", ', <, >) before interpolating the URL into the meta-refresh body

Workarounds

If you can't upgrade immediately, validate user-controlled URLs before passing them to navigateTo(url, { external: true }). At minimum, normalise through new URL(input).toString() and reject inputs containing < or > (a normalised URL with these characters is malformed and safe to refuse).

Severity

CVSS Score: 5.3 / 10 (Medium)
Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

Nuxt: `__nuxt_island` endpoint does not bind responses to request props, enabling shared-cache poisoning

CVE-2026-46342 / GHSA-g8wj-3cr3-6w7v

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Summary

The /__nuxt_island/* endpoint accepts attacker-controlled props query/body parameters and renders any island component without verifying that the URL-resident hash (<Name>_<hashId>.json) was actually issued for those inputs by <NuxtIsland>. The hash is computed and embedded client-side but never validated server-side, so the same path can return materially different responses depending on the query.

Island components are documented as rendering independently of route context - page middleware does not apply to them, and they are intentionally cacheable as a function of their props. This advisory does not treat that contract as a vulnerability. It treats the absence of a binding between the URL the cache keys on and the response served at that URL as one.

Impact

In applications where a CDN or reverse-proxy in front of the app caches /__nuxt_island/* keyed by path only (ignoring query) - a documented misconfiguration class, see GHSA-jvhm-gjrh-3h93 - an attacker can prime the cache for a path with their own choice of props, and subsequent users requesting the same path receive the attacker's rendered HTML rather than the response intended for them. The cache entry persists until normal expiry.

Where the affected island has any prop flowing into an unsafe HTML sink in application code (v-html, innerHTML, a third-party renderer treating a prop as HTML), this becomes stored XSS in the embedding page's origin until the cache entry expires. HttpOnly cookies remain out of reach but anything else in the origin (other cookies, in-origin requests, DOM state) is reachable by the injected script.

Preconditions:

experimental.componentIslands enabled (or the default 'auto' with at least one server / island component in the app).
A shared intermediary cache (CDN, reverse-proxy, edge cache) keyed on path only.
For the XSS pivot specifically: an application-authored island that puts a prop through an unsafe HTML sink.

Without the second precondition, the response shape is per-request and unaffected. Without the third, the worst case is content-swap / inert HTML injection rather than script execution.

Patches

Patched in nuxt@4.4.6 and nuxt@3.21.6 by #35077. The island handler now recomputes the expected hashId from (name, props, context) using the same ohash function <NuxtIsland> already uses to embed the hash in the URL, and rejects requests (HTTP 400) whose URL-resident hash does not match. The response is now a pure function of the request path: a path-keyed shared cache returns the correct response to every requester for that path, and an attacker cannot synthesise a path whose hash matches arbitrary props.

Workarounds

For users unable to upgrade immediately:

Ensure any intermediary cache keys /__nuxt_island/* on the full query string, not on the path alone. This is the recommended configuration regardless.
Audit application-authored islands for props flowing into v-html / innerHTML / similar HTML sinks; treat island props as untrusted user input.

Note on island authentication

[!IMPORTANT]
It's important to remember that route middleware does not run when rendering island components, and islands cannot rely on routing-layer auth. Applications gating sensitive data behind page middleware should enforce that auth inside the island's own data layer (server-only routes, useRequestEvent + manual session checks, etc.) rather than relying on the embedding page's middleware - this was true before this advisory and remains true after it.

A separate advisory addresses *.server.vue pages registered as page_<routeName> islands, where the documented "middleware doesn't run for islands" contract collides with the page's own definePageMeta({ middleware }) declaration in a way that constitutes a genuine bug rather than documented behaviour.

Severity

CVSS Score: 2.3 / 10 (Low)
Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

Nuxt's route middleware is not enforced when rendering `.server.vue` pages via `/__nuxt_island/page_*`

CVE-2026-47200 / GHSA-hg3f-28rg-4jxj

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Summary

When experimental.componentIslands is enabled (default in Nuxt 4), any .server.vue file under pages/ is automatically registered as a server island under the key page_<routeName> and exposed via the /__nuxt_island/:name endpoint. Until this fix, requests through that endpoint rendered the page component directly via the SSR renderer without instantiating Vue Router, which meant route middleware declared on the page (including definePageMeta({ middleware })) did not run.

For Nuxt applications that gate a .server.vue page behind route middleware as their sole auth check, an unauthenticated attacker could bypass that check by requesting /__nuxt_island/page_<routeName>_<anyhash> directly and receiving the server-rendered HTML.

Affected configurations

All three conditions must hold for an application to be vulnerable:

experimental.componentIslands is enabled (the default in Nuxt 4; opt-in in Nuxt 3).
The application defines one or more .server.vue files under pages/, registering them as routed pages.
Authentication / authorization for at least one such page is enforced solely via route middleware (middleware/*.ts referenced from definePageMeta), without a server-side check inside the page or its data layer.

Applications that enforce auth inside the island's own data layer (server-only API routes, useRequestEvent + manual session checks, etc.) were not affected. The general "route middleware does not run for non-page island components" behaviour is documented and unchanged; this advisory concerns the .server.vue page case specifically, where running middleware is the user's clear expectation.

Details

Build (packages/nuxt/src/components/templates.ts): .server.vue pages are registered as island components with page_ prefix, making them addressable through /__nuxt_island/page_<routeName>_<hashId>.
Runtime (packages/nitro-server/src/runtime/handlers/island.ts): the handler resolves the requested island component and renders it via renderer.renderToString(ssrContext). The Vue Router plugin previously short-circuited middleware execution whenever ssrContext.islandContext was set.
The two paths interact so that route middleware declared on the source page never runs.

Proof of concept

Given a page app/pages/secret.server.vue:

<script setup lang="ts">
definePageMeta({ middleware: 'auth' })
</script>

<template>
<h1>SECRET DATA</h1>
</template>

with middleware/auth.ts blocking unauthenticated access:

##### Direct page request: blocked by middleware
curl -i http://localhost:3000/secret

##### -> 403 / redirect, depending on the middleware

##### Island request: middleware did not run before this fix
curl -i 'http://localhost:3000/__nuxt_island/page_secret_anyhash'

##### -> 200 OK, body includes <h1>SECRET DATA</h1>

Patches

Patched in nuxt@4.4.6 and nuxt@3.21.6 by #35092. The Vue Router plugin now runs middleware and redirect handling for page_* islands (i.e. islands that originate from .server.vue files in pages/). The island handler propagates middleware-issued responses (~renderResponse), and a new beforeResolve guard returns HTTP 400 when the requested page_<name> does not match the route component the URL resolves to.

Non-page island components are unaffected - they continue to render without route middleware, by design.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade immediately:

Enforce authentication inside the .server.vue page itself, not via route middleware. Read the session from useRequestEvent() and throw createError({ statusCode: 401 }) (or redirect) before returning data. This is the recommended pattern for islands regardless of this advisory.
Disable experimental.componentIslands if your app does not use the feature.
If your app must keep route-middleware-only auth, gate the /__nuxt_island/page_* URL prefix at your reverse proxy or in a server middleware.

Severity

CVSS Score: 6.3 / 10 (Medium)
Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

Nuxt: Dev server discloses project absolute path and persistent workspace UUID via `/.well-known/appspecific/com.chrome.devtools.json`

GHSA-rq7w-g337-39qq

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Summary

When running nuxt dev, Nuxt registers an unauthenticated route at /.well-known/appspecific/com.chrome.devtools.json that returns the absolute filesystem path of the project root and a per-project UUID persisted to node_modules/.cache/nuxt/chrome-workspace.json. The route is enabled by default via experimental.chromeDevtoolsProjectSettings: true.

The endpoint exists to let Chrome DevTools' Workspace integration map sources to the developer's local checkout. The handler is registered directly on nitro.options.devHandlers and does not pass through the CORS / origin wrapper that the rest of the dev pipeline uses, so it has no host / origin / Sec-Fetch-Site check of its own.

Impact

Dev-server only. Production builds do not register the route.

Two values are disclosed:

workspace.root: the absolute filesystem path of the project (commonly reveals the OS username and the on-disk project name).
workspace.uuid: a v4 UUID persisted to node_modules/.cache/nuxt/chrome-workspace.json, stable across dev-server restarts and re-clones.

Threat model

The response carries no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. A cross-origin fetch() from an arbitrary malicious page is therefore blocked by the browser's same-origin policy and cannot read the body. The two realistic recovery paths are:

LAN-adjacent attacker when the developer runs nuxt dev --host (or otherwise binds to a non-loopback interface). A plain curl http://<dev-lan-ip>:3000/.well-known/appspecific/com.chrome.devtools.json returns the JSON; no browser, no CORS.
DNS rebinding against the default loopback dev server. A page the developer visits resolves to the attacker, then re-resolves to 127.0.0.1 after the TTL; the browser believes the request is same-origin and reads the response.

Affected versions

nuxt@4.0.0-alpha.1 (PR #32084) through nuxt@4.4.6. 3.x is not affected.

Reproduction

npx nuxt dev
curl -s http://localhost:3000/.well-known/appspecific/com.chrome.devtools.json

##### {"workspace":{"uuid":"...","root":"/Users/<name>/..."}}

Workaround

Set experimental: { chromeDevtoolsProjectSettings: false } in nuxt.config.ts. Chrome DevTools' Workspace auto-integration will stop working; the dev server is otherwise unaffected.

Patches

Fixed in nuxt@4.4.7 by #35201 (commit 55c75b78). The handler is now routed through the same host / origin gate the rest of the dev server uses, so the endpoint only responds to requests that look local.

Severity

CVSS Score: 2.3 / 10 (Low)
Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

Nuxt: URL-handling weaknesses in `navigateTo` and `reloadNuxtApp`: SSR open redirect, client-side script execution via the `open` option, and protocol-relative bypass in `reloadNuxtApp`

CVE-2026-56326 / GHSA-c9cv-mq2m-ppp3

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Summary

Three weaknesses in Nuxt's client-navigation URL handling, all reachable
from documented public APIs (navigateTo and reloadNuxtApp):

SSR open redirect in navigateTo via path-normalisation bypass.
navigateTo decided whether a target was external by inspecting the raw
input with hasProtocol(..., { acceptRelative: true }). Inputs such as
/..//evil.com, /.//evil.com, /%2e%2e//evil.com, or
/app/..//evil.com slipped past that check because they start with
/, but WHATWG URL parsing then normalised them to the
protocol-relative pathname //evil.com. The normalised value was
written to the Location response header and into the
<meta http-equiv="refresh"> body of the SSR redirect page, so a
victim's browser would resolve the redirect cross-origin to the
attacker's host.
Client-side script execution via navigateTo({ open: ... }). The
client-side early-open handler called window.open(toPath, ...) without
applying the isScriptProtocol check that gates the normal navigateTo
path. A target of javascript:... (or another script-capable scheme)
passed to navigateTo(url, { open: { ... } }) therefore executed in the
application's origin instead of being rejected.
Open redirect in reloadNuxtApp via protocol-relative bypass.
reloadNuxtApp({ path }) rejects script-capable protocols by parsing
the path with new URL(path, window.location.href) and checking the
resolved protocol against isScriptProtocol. Protocol-relative paths
such as //evil.com resolve to the current page's protocol (https:),
which passes that check; the value is then assigned to
window.location.href, which the browser treats as a cross-origin
redirect. This is the same protocol-relative bypass family as (1), in
a different sink.

Impact

For (1), the practical risk is phishing or OAuth-code theft against any
Nuxt app that forwards user-controlled input (for example a ?next=
query parameter on a login route) into navigateTo on the server. The
framework documents that navigateTo blocks external hosts unless
external: true is passed, so maintainers commonly rely on it as the
safe path for post-login redirects.

For (2), any app that passes a user-controlled URL into
navigateTo(url, { open: { ... } }) was vulnerable to reflected XSS in
the application's first-party origin.

For (3), any app that forwards user-controlled input into
reloadNuxtApp({ path }) could be redirected cross-origin for phishing
or OAuth-code theft, even on releases that already shipped the
isScriptProtocol guard added by #35115.

Patches

Fixed in nuxt@4.4.7 and backported to nuxt@3.21.7. The three sinks
are addressed by:

Path-normalisation bypass in navigateTo:
- 4.x: commit 2cce6fb0
- 3.x: commit 1f2dd5e7
navigateTo({ open }) script-protocol guard:
- 4.x: #35206 (commit 3394716d)
- 3.x: commit 62fc32ed
Protocol-relative bypass in reloadNuxtApp:
- 4.x: commit e447a793
- 3.x: commit 6497d99d

Workarounds

For (1): validate redirect targets before passing them to navigateTo,
for example reject any input where
new URL(target, 'http://localhost').pathname starts with //, or
only accept a known allow-list of paths.
For (2): reject any user-controlled URL whose protocol is not in an
allow-list (typically just http: and https:) before passing it to
navigateTo({ open: ... }).
For (3): same shape as (1). Reject paths starting with // (or where
new URL(path, window.location.href).host !== window.location.host)
before passing to reloadNuxtApp({ path }).

References

CWE-601: URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect')
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Credits

Reported by Anthropic / Claude as ANT-2026-S08HN6DH through Anthropic's
coordinated vulnerability disclosure programme.

The reloadNuxtApp protocol-relative bypass (sink 3) was independently
reported by @alcls01111 via GitHub's
coordinated disclosure flow (GHSA-w7fp-2cfv-4837), closed as a
duplicate of this advisory.

Severity

CVSS Score: 5.1 / 10 (Medium)
Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

Nuxt: Route-rule middleware bypass via case-sensitivity mismatch between vue-router and the routeRules matcher

CVE-2026-53721 / GHSA-mm7m-92g8-7m47

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Impact

Nuxt looks up routeRules for the current navigation by calling
getRouteRules({ path: to.path }) from the page-router plugin and the
no-pages router plugin. The compiled routeRules matcher (built on
rou3) performs case-sensitive matching, while vue-router is configured
with its default sensitive: false and matches paths case-insensitively.

The two routers therefore disagree on which rules apply to a given
request path: vue-router still matches the page record for
/Admin/dashboard, but the routeRules lookup for the same path
returns no match. Any appMiddleware declared via routeRules is never
added to the middleware set and never runs, on both SSR and client
navigations. The same path skips other path-keyed route rules in the
same way (ssr, redirect, appLayout, and the prerender / payload
hints used client-side).

For applications using routeRules with appMiddleware as an
authorization gate (a documented pattern), an attacker can flip the case
of any static segment in a protected URL (for example /Admin/dashboard
instead of /admin/dashboard) to render the protected page with the
middleware skipped. The server returns the fully server-rendered page
including any useFetch / useAsyncData results captured during SSR.

This is an instance of CWE-178 (Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity)
leading to CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization) for apps that treat
appMiddleware as an authorization boundary.

Mitigating factors

Only affects apps that use routeRules.appMiddleware. The more
idiomatic definePageMeta({ middleware }) is bound to the matched
route record and is unaffected.
Nuxt route middleware is documented as an app-layer concern, not a
server-side auth boundary; well-built apps enforce authorization
again at the API / data-fetching layer.
Apps that explicitly set router.options.sensitive = true are not
affected.

Patches

Fixed in nuxt@4.4.7 (commit 07e39cd6) and backported to nuxt@3.21.7 (commit 3f3e3fa7). The fix normalizes the path used for routeRules lookups so it matches vue-router's default case-insensitive semantics.

Workarounds

Until you can upgrade, you can mitigate by either:

Setting router.options.sensitive = true so vue-router matches
case-sensitively (this changes route-matching behaviour app-wide).
Moving security-critical middleware off routeRules.appMiddleware
and onto definePageMeta({ middleware: [...] }) on the protected
page components, which is bound to the matched record.
Enforcing authorization at the API / data-fetching layer (which you
should be doing in any case).

Credit

Reported by Anthropic / Claude through Anthropic's coordinated
vulnerability disclosure process. Reference: ANT-2026-9FSEBYMC.

Severity

CVSS Score: 8.8 / 10 (High)
Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

Nuxt dev server vite-node IPC socket is world-connectable on Linux

GHSA-534h-c3cw-v3h9

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Impact

When running nuxt dev on Linux (Node.js 20+, outside Docker / StackBlitz), Nuxt's internal vite-node IPC server binds to a Linux abstract-namespace Unix socket (\0nuxt-vite-node-<pid>-<ts>.sock). Abstract sockets have no filesystem inode and therefore no permission bits: any local UID on the host that can read /proc/net/unix can enumerate the socket and connect to it.

The IPC server does not perform any peer-credential or shared-secret check before dispatching requests. The module request type passes its moduleId field straight into Vite's SSR fetchModule(), which is not gated by Vite's HTTP-layer server.fs.allow deny-list. A co-resident unprivileged local user can therefore request paths like /home/<dev>/project/.env?raw or ~/.ssh/id_rsa?raw and read the developer's secrets through the dev server's SSR plugin pipeline. The resolve request type additionally enables filesystem probing.

This affects developers running nuxt dev on shared multi-tenant Linux hosts (lab machines, shared bastions, CI runners shared between jobs without per-job container isolation). It does not affect:

Production builds (nuxt build / nuxt start). The IPC server only runs in development.
macOS or Windows developers.
Docker / StackBlitz environments, which already fall back to a filesystem socket.
Single-user laptops or per-job containerised CI.

Patches

Fixed in nuxt@4.4.7 (commit 1f9f4767) and backported to nuxt@3.21.7 (commit c293bf95).

The fix removes the abstract-namespace branch entirely. The IPC server now always binds to a filesystem Unix socket under the OS temp directory and explicitly chmod 0600s it after listen(), restricting connections to the owning UID. If the chmod fails for any reason, the server closes rather than serve requests on an unrestricted channel.

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade immediately on an affected host:

Run nuxt dev inside a container or VM with no other tenants. Docker already triggers the filesystem-socket fallback in vulnerable versions and that fallback is unaffected.
Bind the dev process to a single-user namespace (unshare -U, rootless containers).
Restrict /proc/net/unix visibility via hidepid=2 mount options where applicable, though this is partial mitigation only.

References

Affected file: packages/vite/src/plugins/vite-node.ts
CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions

Credit

Reported by Anthropic / Claude as part of Anthropic's coordinated vulnerability disclosure programme, reference ANT-2026-MSNKZFAT. Thanks to the Anthropic security team for the report and the detailed reproduction.

Independently reported by @alcls01111 via GitHub's coordinated disclosure flow (GHSA-5gvc-46gq-948j), closed as a duplicate of this advisory.

Severity

CVSS Score: 5.5 / 10 (Medium)
Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

Nuxt: Reflected XSS in `<NuxtLink>` via unsanitised `javascript:` or `data:` URL

CVE-2026-53722 / GHSA-934w-87qh-qr26

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Summary

<NuxtLink> did not validate the URL scheme of values bound to its to or href props before rendering them into the href attribute of the underlying <a> element. When an application binds attacker-controlled input (a query parameter, a CMS field, a user-supplied profile URL) to <NuxtLink :to> or :href, the attacker can supply a javascript: or vbscript: URL that is reflected verbatim into the rendered markup. Clicking the link executes the supplied script in the origin of the Nuxt application, resulting in reflected DOM-based cross-site scripting. A data:text/html,... payload reflected through the same sink does not execute in the application's origin but enables a same-tab phishing surface anchored to a legitimate application link.

The same value was exposed to consumers of the component's custom slot via the href and route.href props, so applications that re-bind those values to their own anchors were affected identically.

Unlike the previously reported navigateTo issue (CVE-2024-34343), the sink here is the rendered anchor itself; the existing isScriptProtocol checks in navigateTo and reloadNuxtApp are not on the code path. The onClick handler intentionally returns early for external links so the browser's native protocol-based navigation runs.

Affected component

File: packages/nuxt/src/app/components/nuxt-link.ts
Sink: h('a', { href: href.value, ... }) in the default render, plus the href / route.href props passed to the custom slot.
Broken check: external auto-detection treated any hasProtocol(path, { acceptRelative: true }) value as an "external link", then rendered the value directly as <a href> without rejecting script-capable protocols. There was no equivalent of the navigateTo isScriptProtocol(protocol) gate in this path.

Impact

Any Nuxt application that binds user-controlled values to <NuxtLink :to> / :href was vulnerable. Common shapes: profile-link rendering (<NuxtLink :to="user.website">), "share this" / "open in new tab" handlers that pass through a query parameter, CMS-driven landing pages that render <NuxtLink :to="cms.cta.url">, and marketplace listings that show seller-supplied links.

For javascript: / vbscript: the primitive is reflected XSS in the application's first-party origin (session theft for non-HttpOnly cookies, CSRF token theft, account takeover via DOM rewriting, credential harvesting via fake login overlays). For data:text/html,... the attacker gets a same-tab phishing surface anchored to a legitimate application link.

Patches

Fixed in nuxt@4.4.7 (commit 0103ce06) and backported to nuxt@3.21.7 (commit 53284043). The fix sanitises the resolved external href before it is passed to <a> or the custom slot: control characters and whitespace are stripped, leading view-source: prefixes are unwrapped, and any remaining script-capable scheme (per isScriptProtocol) causes the href to be replaced with an empty string.

Workarounds

Until you can upgrade, validate URLs at the source before binding them to <NuxtLink :to> / :href. For example, only accept paths that start with / (and not //), or run user-supplied URLs through new URL(value) and reject anything whose protocol is not in an allow-list (typically http: and https:).

Severity

CVSS Score: 5.1 / 10 (Medium)
Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

Cross-site scripting via slot content in Nuxt's head components

GHSA-m3q2-p4fw-w38m

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Impact

Nuxt's globally registered <NoScript> component (from @unhead/vue head components, re-exported by Nuxt) wrote its default-slot content to the innerHTML of the <noscript> head tag, bypassing the HTML escaping that {{ }} interpolation normally applies in Vue templates.

Applications that placed untrusted, attacker-controllable data inside a <NoScript> slot, for example:

<NoScript>{{ route.query.banner }}</NoScript>

would emit that value unescaped inside <noscript> in the server-rendered HTML. With scripting enabled, the HTML parser treats <noscript> content in <head> under the "in head noscript" insertion mode: any tag other than link, meta, noframes, or style implicitly closes <noscript> and is re-processed in the head. A payload such as <script>...</script> therefore escapes the element and executes in the document context.

Sibling head components (<Style>, <Title>) were not affected because they already routed slot text through the safe textContent path.

Affected versions

All currently supported versions of nuxt that ship the <NoScript> global component.

Patches

Fixed in nuxt@4.4.7 (commit 4b054e9d) and backported to nuxt@3.21.7 (commit 7fea9fd6). The fix escapes <NoScript> slot content with escapeHtml from @vue/shared and writes it to textContent rather than innerHTML. Slot content is now rendered as text; intentional markup inside <NoScript> is no longer parsed as HTML.

Workarounds

Until you can upgrade:

Do not interpolate untrusted input into <NoScript> slots. Replace <NoScript>{{ x }}</NoScript> with a static string, or sanitise / HTML-escape x at the source.
If you must render dynamic noscript content, write the tag yourself via useHead({ noscript: [{ textContent: escapedValue }] }) after escaping escapedValue.

Credit

Reported to Anthropic's coordinated vulnerability disclosure pipeline by Claude (Anthropic's AI assistant) and triaged by the Anthropic security team. Reference: ANT-2026-4NJYDFFM.

Independently reported by @alcls01111 via GitHub's coordinated disclosure flow (GHSA-8grp-wcq9-925q), closed as a duplicate of this advisory.

Severity

CVSS Score: 2.3 / 10 (Low)
Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

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Nuxt: Unauthenticated out-of-memory crash via unbounded v-for expansion in island rendering

CVE-2026-71314 / GHSA-hxcr-hm88-mpq6

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Impact

An unauthenticated attacker can crash a Nuxt server that renders any island / server component containing a v-for over a prop (for example v-for="n in count" or a <slot v-for>). Because the island URL hash is a non-secret digest of the request, the attacker can compute a valid hash for arbitrary props and send the iterated prop as a large integer. The server then expands the v-for to that many nodes during SSR, allocating memory proportional to the attacker's number. Reporter figures: count=8000000 produced a 142.9 MB response; count=40000000 (and items=4000000 on a slot list) produced an out-of-memory crash of the worker from a single ~130-byte request. Both the plain v-for path (Vue's ssrRenderList) and the slot path (vforToArray) are affected.

Patches

Fixed in nuxt@4.5.1 and nuxt@3.21.10. Island/server-component v-for sources are now clamped to a maximum iteration count (MAX_VFOR_LENGTH = 100000) at the render boundary, covering the plain path, the <slot v-for> element, and the vforToArray slot-props helper. Combined with the body-size cap (GHSA-9pgf-384g-p7mv), a single island render can no longer allocate without bound regardless of which v-for path is used or whether the prop arrives as an integer or an array.

Workarounds

Avoid v-for directly over an unclamped prop in server components, or clamp the count in the component (v-for="n in Math.min(count, 1000)"). A body-size limit in front of /__nuxt_island/ only mitigates array-shaped inputs, not the integer-amplification case.

References

Bound helper: packages/nuxt/src/app/components/vfor.ts
Transform: packages/nuxt/src/components/plugins/islands-transform.ts
Slot helper: packages/nuxt/src/app/components/utils.ts (vforToArray)

Severity

CVSS Score: 7.5 / 10 (High)
Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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Nuxt: Unauthorized Component Instantiation via Server Island Props

CVE-2026-71318 / GHSA-48hr-524c-v5w3

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Impact

Nuxt server islands accept props via the /__nuxt_island/ endpoint. When an application has a server island component that forwards props directly into Vue's dynamic component resolution (<component :is>, resolveDynamicComponent, or h()), an attacker can pass a plain string value (rather than a component definition) to instantiate any globally-registered Vue component or any native HTML element.

For example:

{ "as": "SomeGlobalComponent" }

...resolves and renders SomeGlobalComponent if it is globally registered, even though the attacker should only be able to drive props for the island's declared component. Similarly, { "as": "iframe" } renders an <iframe> element.

Unlike the primary RCE vector (GHSA-9473-5f9j-94wq), this does not require vue.runtimeCompiler to be enabled. A plain string prop is sufficient to trigger component resolution. The template/render key guard that addresses the RCE vector does not block plain string values.

Some component libraries expose a polymorphic as / asChild prop that forwards its value into <component :is>; @nuxt/ui (via reka-ui) is a widely used example. An application is affected if such a component receives the attacker-controlled value inside a server island. Note this does not require explicit prop forwarding: island props the island component does not declare fall through as attributes onto its single root element, so an island whose root is a reka-ui / @nuxt/ui component receives the attacker's as value implicitly. Unlike the RCE vector, no vue.runtimeCompiler is required, which makes this vector reachable in more configurations. These libraries are not themselves vulnerable; they are noted only because they commonly provide the dynamic-component sink. Installing @nuxt/ui does not by itself register any component as a server island: the application must define the island (a .server.vue file).

Mitigating factors

Exploitation requires a server island component that puts an attacker-controlled value onto a dynamic-component path (<component :is>, resolveDynamicComponent, h(), or a polymorphic as / asChild prop), either explicitly or via attribute fallthrough when the island's root is such a component.
Reachable components are limited to what is actually in the island app's global registry. In a default pages-enabled app that is RouterView and RouterLink (both registered globally by the pages router plugin, which runs even in component islands), plus any components/global/ component and any component a module registers globally. RouterLink in particular renders an attacker-influenced <a> (and, because an island that declares no props forwards all props, to and other RouterLink props ride the same fallthrough). Vue built-ins (Transition, KeepAlive, Teleport, Suspense) and Nuxt auto-imports (ClientOnly, NuxtLink, NuxtPage, etc.) are NOT in the island app's global registry and cannot be resolved this way; an unresolved name instead renders as a native HTML element (the element-injection half of this issue).
Declaring the props an island accepts, or setting inheritAttrs: false on it, prevents an undeclared as from falling through to a polymorphic root and neutralizes this vector.
Arbitrary JavaScript execution is not possible through this vector (no template/render compilation).
Island component names are constrained to the build-time component registry; an attacker cannot resolve arbitrary components.

Affected versions

Nuxt >=3.1.0 <3.21.10 and >=4.0.0 <4.5.1, with component islands active. The island prop-forwarding behavior has existed since server islands were introduced in v3.1.0, and this vector does not depend on vue.runtimeCompiler. Nuxt 2 is not affected.

Note the patch (below) closes the implicit attribute-fallthrough path, which is the majority case. An island that explicitly forwards an untrusted prop into dynamic component resolution (or forwards it under a prop name other than as) remains the application's responsibility in every version; see Workarounds.

Patches

Fixed in nuxt@4.5.1 and nuxt@3.21.10. Patched releases reject a top-level as island prop (HTTP 400 at the /__nuxt_island/ endpoint). This closes the implicit path: island props an island does not declare fall through as attributes onto its single root, so a top-level as would otherwise reach a polymorphic root component's as prop (the reka-ui / @nuxt/ui convention) and drive dynamic component resolution without the author binding it. Rejecting the top-level as prop blocks that fallthrough while leaving nested data and other prop names untouched.

The framework deliberately does not attempt to block every case: it cannot safely tell a string used as data from one used as a component selector, and it has no island-local hook into Vue's h() or resolveDynamicComponent(). An island that explicitly forwards an untrusted value into <component :is> / h() / resolveDynamicComponent(), or that forwards it under a different polymorphic prop name, is therefore not covered by the patch and must follow the guidance below. The Nuxt documentation now warns against this.

Workarounds

Upgrade to nuxt@4.5.1 or nuxt@3.21.10. That upgrade also removes the related object-prop RCE (GHSA-9473-5f9j-94wq). In addition, in any version:

Do not forward island props into <component :is>, resolveDynamicComponent, or h(). Map an untrusted discriminator through a closed allowlist of imported component definitions instead of passing the raw prop value.
Declare the props an island accepts, or set inheritAttrs: false on it, so request input cannot fall through to a polymorphic root component.
Avoid registering sensitive components globally that could leak information if instantiated by an attacker.

Severity

CVSS Score: 4.8 / 10 (Medium)
Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

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Nuxt: Server-Side Remote Code Execution via Runtime Template Injection in Nuxt Server Island Props

CVE-2026-71320 / GHSA-9473-5f9j-94wq

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Impact

Nuxt server islands accept props via the /__nuxt_island/ endpoint. When vue.runtimeCompiler: true is enabled (off by default) and the application has a server island component that forwards props into Vue's dynamic component resolution (<component :is>, resolveDynamicComponent, or h()), an attacker can inject a template key into the island props to achieve server-side remote code execution in the Nitro process.

{ "as": { "template": "<attacker-controlled>" } }

Vue's runtime template compiler compiles and executes the attacker-controlled template in the server process. The same primitive also works on the client side when the runtime compiler is active there, though the server-side path is the primary concern.

Some component libraries expose a polymorphic as / asChild prop that forwards its value into <component :is>; @nuxt/ui (via reka-ui) is a widely used example. An application is affected if such a component receives the attacker-controlled value, provided vue.runtimeCompiler is also enabled. Note this does not require the island author to explicitly forward a prop: island props that the island component does not declare fall through as attributes onto its single root element (standard Vue attribute inheritance), so an island whose root is a polymorphic component receives the attacker's as value implicitly. These libraries are not themselves vulnerable; they are noted only because they commonly provide the dynamic-component sink.

Common configurations that satisfy the preconditions

The flaw is in Nuxt core. The library below is not itself vulnerable; it is noted because it commonly provides the dynamic-component sink an application might inadvertently expose.

@nuxt/ui (via its underlying reka-ui primitives) exposes a polymorphic as / asChild prop that is forwarded into Vue's dynamic-component resolution. Installing @nuxt/ui does not by itself register any component as a server island. Exploitation requires the application to define an island component (a .server.vue file) whose rendered output puts the attacker-controlled value on such a component's as / asChild prop; with vue.runtimeCompiler: true, the attacker-controlled template is then compiled and executed. Because undeclared island props fall through as attributes to the single root, this can happen without any explicit binding: an island whose root is a reka-ui / @nuxt/ui component is enough. An example vulnerable island (the as value falls through to UButton, no explicit forwarding needed):
```

<template>
  <UButton>Save</UButton>
</template>
```

The island URL hash (/__nuxt_island/<Name>_<hash>.json) is a deterministic (unsalted) content hash, not an authentication token. It provides integrity relative to the URL but is not a security boundary: an attacker who knows the component name and desired props can compute a valid hash.

Mitigating factors

vue.runtimeCompiler is off by default in Nuxt. The vast majority of Nuxt applications are not affected.
Exploitation requires a second precondition: the application must have a server island component that puts an attacker-controlled value onto a dynamic-component path (<component :is>, resolveDynamicComponent, h(), or a polymorphic as / asChild prop). This can occur explicitly or via attribute fallthrough when the island's root is such a component.
SSG / static deployments are largely unreachable via this vector (no server process to exploit).
Island component names are constrained to the build-time component registry; an attacker cannot resolve arbitrary components.

Affected versions

Nuxt >=3.4.0 <3.21.10 and >=4.0.0 <4.5.1, and only when vue.runtimeCompiler: true and component islands are active. Ear

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Nuxt: __nuxt_island endpoint does not bind responses to request props, enabling shared-cache poisoning

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Nuxt's route middleware is not enforced when rendering .server.vue pages via /__nuxt_island/page_*

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Nuxt: Dev server discloses project absolute path and persistent workspace UUID via /.well-known/appspecific/com.chrome.devtools.json

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Nuxt: URL-handling weaknesses in navigateTo and reloadNuxtApp: SSR open redirect, client-side script execution via the open option, and protocol-relative bypass in reloadNuxtApp

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Nuxt dev server vite-node IPC socket is world-connectable on Linux

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Nuxt: Reflected XSS in <NuxtLink> via unsanitised javascript: or data: URL

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