GHSA-jxj7-g6gm-49j7 — tarteaucitronjs
MEDIUMGHSA-jxj7-g6gm-49j7 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.3) CWE-285 vulnerability in tarteaucitronjs. A fix is available for tarteaucitronjs — see the affected versions and patch details below.
tarteaucitron: data-cookie attribute can be used to delete arbitrary cookies
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-jxj7-g6gm-49j7.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-jxj7-g6gm-49j7 plotted by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). The shaded corner — EPSS 50%+ and CVSS 7.0+ — is where this CVE doesn't sit, though severity or exploitability alone can still warrant action.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 376,715 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Real counts from FIRST.org, not a sample — log-scaled since the landscape is heavily right-skewed.
Real-World Exposure
How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.
tarteaucitronjsnpmDescription
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.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | tarteaucitronjs | all versions | 1.33.0npm install tarteaucitronjs@1.33.0 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for tarteaucitronjs, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update tarteaucitronjs to 1.33.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-jxj7-g6gm-49j7 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 Security's impact-aware SCA analyses which vulnerable code paths your application actually calls, so a match like GHSA-jxj7-g6gm-49j7 can be triaged on real exposure rather than presence alone.
Tailored to GHSA-jxj7-g6gm-49j7. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-jxj7-g6gm-49j7 in your dependencies?
O3 Security finds GHSA-jxj7-g6gm-49j7 across npm dependencies, including transitive ones, and its impact-aware SCA ranks findings by whether your code actually calls the vulnerable path.