CVE-2021-46440: Strapi

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Storing passwords in a recoverable format in the DOCUMENTATION plugin component of Strapi before 3.6.9 and 4.x before 4.1.5 allows an attacker to access a victim's HTTP request, get the victim's cookie, perform a base64 decode on the victim's cookie, and obtain a cleartext password, leading to getting API documentation for further API attacks.

Affected products

• Strapi Strapi: before 3.6.9 (fixed in 3.6.9); from 4.0.0, before 4.1.5 (fixed in 4.1.5)

Published 2022-05-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.