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title: "CVE-2025-53624: docusaurus-plugin-content-gists vulnerability exposes GitHub Personal Access Token"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2025-53624/
description: "CVE-2025-53624 (docusaurus-plugin-content-gists (npm)): The Docusaurus gists plugin adds a page to your Docusaurus instance, displaying all public gists of…"
type: vulnerability-record
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2025-07-09
date_modified: 2025-07-10
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
cve: "CVE-2025-53624"
kev: false
cvss: 10
epss: 0.02048
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
---

# CVE-2025-53624: docusaurus-plugin-content-gists vulnerability exposes GitHub Personal Access Token

**Signal:** Critical and remotely reachable. No known exploitation yet, but it is network-reachable without credentials. (Computed from CISA KEV, EPSS and CVSS; not an editorial verdict.)

## Should you act?

- No confirmed exploitation. It is not in CISA’s KEV catalog and CISA’s SSVC assessment records no known exploitation. That can change quickly after a public write-up; re-check if you are affected.
- EPSS 2.0% , percentile 81: FIRST’s model estimates a 2.0% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (elevated). EPSS is a probability, not a verdict.
- Remotely reachable with no login and no user interaction. If the vulnerable service is exposed to the internet, prioritize it.
- Only applies if your dependency tree includes docusaurus-plugin-content-gists (npm) < 4.0.0, fixed in 4.0.0 . Check your lockfile, including transitive dependencies.

## What it is

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.

## Affected packages

- npm `docusaurus-plugin-content-gists` < 4.0.0 → fixed: 4.0.0

## Affected products (CVE record)

- webbertakken docusaurus-plugin-content-gists: < 4.0.0

## Severity

- GitHub_M CVSS 3.1: 10 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`
- GitHub CVSS 3.1: 10.0 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`

## Exploitation

- CISA KEV: not listed (no confirmed in-the-wild exploitation known to CISA).
- CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation none , automatable yes , technical impact total .
- FIRST EPSS (model of 2026-10-21): 2.05% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 81.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory GHSA-qf34-qpr4-5pph](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qf34-qpr4-5pph)
- [CVE.org record CVE-2025-53624](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-53624)
- [NVD entry CVE-2025-53624](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53624)
- [github.com](https://github.com/webbertakken/docusaurus-plugin-content-gists/security/advisories/GHSA-qf34-qpr4-5pph)
- [github.com](https://github.com/webbertakken/docusaurus-plugin-content-gists/commit/8d4230b82412edb215ddfa9e609d178510a5fe31)

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