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CVE-2026-49977

npm · tarteaucitronjs

Summary

tarteaucitron: data-cookie attribute can be used to delete arbitrary cookies

Severity
medium
CVSS
4.3
EPSS
0.4% (p29)
CWE
CWE-285
Also known as
GHSA-jxj7-g6gm-49j7
Published
2026-07-10
Updated
2026-07-10

Advisory 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.

References

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Sources: CISA KEV (public domain), OSV.dev & GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY-4.0), FIRST EPSS, NVD/CWE (public domain). Served live from the Stateward advisory database.