What is GHSA-j5qg-46p9-w2rp?

GHSA-j5qg-46p9-w2rp is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. Malicious Package in jekyll-for-github-projects

Why does GHSA-j5qg-46p9-w2rp have no CVE ID yet?

GitHub Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

Which products are affected by GHSA-j5qg-46p9-w2rp?

GHSA-j5qg-46p9-w2rp affects 1 product, including: npm/jekyll-for-github-projects:= 0.2.12.

GHSA-j5qg-46p9-w2rpCriticalDisclosed before NVD

Malicious Package in jekyll-for-github-projects

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 3, 2020

Last Modified

July 27, 2023

📋 Description

Version 0.2.12 of jekyll-for-github-projects contained malicious code. The code when executed in the browser would enumerate password, cvc and cardnumber fields from forms and send the extracted values to https://js-metrics.com/minjs.php?pl=

Recommendation

Remove the package from your environment and evaluate your application to determine whether or not user data was compromised.

Users may consider downgrading to version 0.2.11

🎯 Affected products1

npm/jekyll-for-github-projects:= 0.2.12

🔗 References (2)

https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/936
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j5qg-46p9-w2rp