# CVE-2026-45669: Nuxt: Reflected XSS in \`navigateTo()\` external redirect

- Also known as: GHSA-FX6J-W5W5-H468
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.21.6, 4.4.6
- Published: 2026-06-12 · Updated: 2026-06-12

## Affected

- nuxt: from 3.4.3, fixed in 3.21.6; from 4.0.0-alpha.1, fixed in 4.4.6
- nuxt (npm): from 3.4.3, fixed in 3.21.6
- nuxt (npm): from 4.0.0-alpha.1, fixed in 4.4.6

## Description

Nuxt is an open-source web development framework for Vue.js. From versions 3.4.3 to before 3.21.6 and 4.0.0-alpha.1 to before 4.4.6, navigateTo() with external: true generates a server-side HTML redirect body containing a <meta http-equiv="refresh"> tag. The destination URL is only sanitized by replacing " with %22, leaving <, >, &, and ' unencoded. An attacker who can influence the URL passed to navigateTo(url, { external: true }) can break out of the content="…" attribute and inject arbitrary HTML/JavaScript that executes under the application's origin. This issue has been patched in versions 3.21.6 and 4.4.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on nuxt, upgrade to a fixed version (3.21.6, 4.4.6) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/security/advisories/GHSA-fx6j-w5w5-h468
- https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt/pull/35052

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