vue-devtools@5.1.0 vulnerabilities

An electron devtools extension for debugging Vue.js applications.

Direct Vulnerabilities

Known vulnerabilities in the vue-devtools package. This does not include vulnerabilities belonging to this package’s dependencies.

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Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

vue-devtools is an An electron devtools extension for debugging Vue.js applications.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via the toast function in devtools-background.js. It can be triggered by postMessage upon opening the browser's developer tools (F12). An attacker can host a specially crafted web page to exploit this vulnerability, then convince a user to view the web page and open developer tools (F12) in other Chrome tabs.

How to fix Cross-site Scripting (XSS)?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

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