GHSA-JXJ7-G6GM-49J7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-10 16:05 – Updated: 2026-07-10 16:05
VLAI
Summary
tarteaucitron: data-cookie attribute can be used to delete arbitrary cookies
Details

Summary

tarteaucitron provides a list of cookies and buttons to delete them. If an attacker can write HTML with data attributes, they could create an element that silently deletes a cookie when clicked and trick a user to delete this cookie.

Details

tarteaucitron.cookie.purge() is called on any element with the purgeBtn class. It does not check if the element is a legitimate tarteaucitron button or if the cookie corresponds to a service handled by tarteaucitron.

PoC

<a class="purgeBtn" data-cookie="foo">Click me!</a>

If someone has a cookie with this name and clicks on the link, the cookie is silently deleted.

Impact

The impact is limited because this only works on cookies without HttpOnly=true and the attacker has to know the name of the cookie.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "tarteaucitronjs"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.33.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-49977"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-285"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-07-10T16:05:00Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "### Summary\n\ntarteaucitron provides a list of cookies and buttons to delete them. If an attacker can write HTML with data attributes, they could create an element that silently deletes a cookie when clicked and trick a user to delete this cookie.\n\n### Details\n\n`tarteaucitron.cookie.purge()` is called on any element with the `purgeBtn` class. It does not check if the element is a legitimate tarteaucitron button or if the cookie corresponds to a service handled by tarteaucitron.\n\n### PoC\n\n```html\n\u003ca class=\"purgeBtn\" data-cookie=\"foo\"\u003eClick me!\u003c/a\u003e\n```\n\nIf someone has a cookie with this name and clicks on the link, the cookie is silently deleted.\n\n### Impact\n\nThe impact is limited because this only works on cookies without HttpOnly=true and the attacker has to know the name of the cookie.",
  "id": "GHSA-jxj7-g6gm-49j7",
  "modified": "2026-07-10T16:05:00Z",
  "published": "2026-07-10T16:05:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/AmauriC/tarteaucitron.js/security/advisories/GHSA-jxj7-g6gm-49j7"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/AmauriC/tarteaucitron.js"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "tarteaucitron: data-cookie attribute can be used to delete arbitrary cookies"
}



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