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i18next-http-backend EUVD-2026-28438

| CVE-2026-41691 MEDIUM
Path Traversal (CWE-22)
2026-05-07 GitHub_M
6.5
CVSS 3.1
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CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

4
Patch available
May 07, 2026 - 22:02 EUVD
Source Code Evidence Fetched
May 07, 2026 - 21:00 vuln.today
Analysis Generated
May 07, 2026 - 21:00 vuln.today
CVE Published
May 07, 2026 - 20:09 nvd
MEDIUM 6.5

Blast Radius

ecosystem impact
† from your stack dependencies † transitive graph · vuln.today resolves 4-path depth
  • 9 npm packages depend on i18next-http-backend (5 direct, 4 indirect)

Ecosystem-wide dependent count for version 3.0.5.

DescriptionNVD

Copilot said: i18nextify is a JavaScript library that adds i18nextify is a JavaScript library that adds website internationalization via a script tag, without source code changes. Versions prior to 3.0.5 interpolate the lng and ns values directly into the configured loadPath / addPath URL template without any encoding, validation, or path sanitisation. When an application exposes the language-code selection to user-controlled input (the default - i18next-browser-languagedetector reads ?lng= query params, cookies, localStorage, and request headers), an attacker can inject characters that change the structure of the outgoing request URL. This is a single URL-injection vulnerability. The attacker-controlled value is neutralised before it is used as part of an output URL string; the attack shape covers both path traversal and broader URL-structure injection - both are closed by the one interpolateUrl sanitisation fix. This issue has been fixed in version 3.0.5. If users cannot upgrade immediately, they can work around the issue by sanitising lng / ns before they reach i18next (strip .., /, \, ?, #, %, whitespace, and control characters; cap the length).

AnalysisAI

Path traversal and URL injection in i18next-http-backend prior to version 3.0.5 allows remote attackers to manipulate request URLs by injecting unsanitized language (lng) and namespace (ns) parameters, potentially leading to server-side request forgery (SSRF), path-based authorization bypass, or arbitrary file reads in SSR deployments. The vulnerability affects all applications using the library with user-controlled language selection via query parameters, cookies, localStorage, or request headers-the default configuration. …

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