Information disclosure in Webbertakken Docusaurus-Plugin-Content-Gists

CVE-2025-53624

The Docusaurus gists plugin adds a page to your Docusaurus instance, displaying all public gists of a GitHub user. docusaurus-plugin-content-gists versions prior to 4.0.0 are vulnerable to exposing GitHub Personal Access Tokens in production build artifacts when passed through plugin configuration options. The token, intended for build-time API access only, is inadvertently included in client-side JavaScript bundles, making it accessible to anyone who can view the website's source code. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.0.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 10.0 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.020 (80.1th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 80th percentile — 80.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2025-53624: held from 0.019 to 0.020.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.020 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-53624?
CVE-2025-53624 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Webbertakken Docusaurus-Plugin-Content-Gists, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 10.0/10. Published 2025-07-09.
How severe is CVE-2025-53624?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 10.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-53624 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.