GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-x7qq-23vw-7pfg social-auth-core has Login CSRF via Missing State Parameter in LoginRadius Backend
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-57177
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- social-auth-core
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-24
Affected packages
• PyPI social-auth-core: < 5.0.0 → fixed in 5.0.0
Description
Impact
The LoginRadius backend did not validate OAuth state during the authentication flow.
Applications using this backend were vulnerable to login CSRF. An attacker could cause a victim's browser session to complete authentication using an attacker-controlled LoginRadius token, making the victim authenticated as the attacker's LoginRadius identity.
The issue affects only applications using the LoginRadius backend.
Patches
The issue has been fixed by enabling callback state validation for the LoginRadius backend.
Users should upgrade to a patched version.
Fix:
• https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-core/pull/1808
Workarounds
Applications that cannot upgrade immediately should disable the LoginRadius backend by removing it from `SOCIAL_AUTH_AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS`.
There is no complete workaround while continuing to use the vulnerable backend.
Credits
Reported through GitHub private vulnerability reporting by Liyi Zhou, Ziyue Wang, Strick, Maurice, and Chenchen Yu from the University of Sydney security research team.
Reporter references:
• https://lzhou1110.github.io/
• https://zyy0530.github.io/
• https://str1ckl4nd.github.io/
• https://maurice.busystar.org/
• https://7thparkk.github.io/
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-57177 Python Social Auth is a social authentication/registration mechanism. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-core/security/advisories/GHSA-x7qq-23vw-7pfg web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57177 advisory
- https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-core/pull/1808 web
- https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-core/commit/4d332820e6b0583fde522956105a0e2beced5335 web
- https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-core package
- https://github.com/python-social-auth/social-core/releases/tag/5.0.0 web