CVE-2021-43776

MediumCVSS 6.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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`.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.1/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Nov 26, 2021
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2021-43776: Medium severity, CVSS 6.1 | Vulnix