GHSA-4m4j-hmqq-3gxm
symfony/ux-live-component: CSRF Protection Bypass — Accept Header is CORS-Safelisted
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2026-49215
- CVSS_V4
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
### Description When using `symfony/ux-live-component`, methods annotated with `#[LiveAction]` are invokable from the browser and mutate server-side state via AJAX. `Symfony\UX\LiveComponent\EventListener\LiveComponentSubscriber::isLiveComponentRequest()` gated these invocations on the presence of `Accept: application/vnd.live-component+html`, with a code comment stating that this acted as a CSRF protection. The `Accept` header is a [CORS-safelisted request header](https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#cors-safelisted-request-header), so a cross-origin `fetch()` can set it without triggering a preflight. The header therefore provided no CSRF protection. Any `#[LiveAction]` could be forged cross-origin against a victim's session. In practice the attack is mitigated by `SameSite=Lax` session cookies (Symfony's default), but applications using `SameSite=None`, `credentials: 'include'` with a permissive cookie policy, or that have been pivoted from another same-origin vector remained exposed. ### Resolution `isLiveComponentRequest()` now additionally requires the request header `X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest`. This header is **not** CORS-safelisted, so the browser issues a preflight `OPTIONS` request for any cross-origin attempt; Symfony does not advertise CORS for LiveComponent endpoints, the preflight fails, and the real request is blocked before it reaches the application. The bundled Stimulus client already sends `X-Requested-With` on every LiveComponent request (`RequestBuilder.ts`), so standard usage is unaffected. Cross-origin callers must add `X-Requested-With` to their CORS `Access-Control-Allow-Headers` allow-list. The patch for this issue is available [here](https://github.com/symfony/ux/commit/aed7493db2b4b7bf1f9c79b33cda544f06904b27) for branch 2.x (and forward-ported to 3.x). ### Credits Symfony would like to thank Anthropic (via Project Glasswing) for reporting the issue and Hugo Alliaume for providing the fix.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| Packagist · symfony/ux-live-component | introduced 2.22.0, fixed 2.36.0 |
| Packagist · symfony/ux-live-component | introduced 3.0.0, fixed 3.1.0 |
References
- https://github.com/symfony/ux/security/advisories/GHSA-4m4j-hmqq-3gxm WEB
- https://github.com/symfony/ux/commit/aed7493db2b4b7bf1f9c79b33cda544f06904b27 WEB
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/symfony/ux-live-component/CVE-2026-49215.yaml WEB
- https://github.com/symfony/ux PACKAGE
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |