{"slug":"vue-ssr-security-review","title":"vue-ssr-security-review","summary":"Statically review Vue 3 SSR entry points and templates for cross-request state pollution (module-scope reactive state, non-per-request app/store creation) and injection via unsanitized v-html or unvalidated dynamic href/src bindings, grounded in Vue's own SSR and security-best-pr","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:52:18.342846Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic","stars":24,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:00:24Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: vue-ssr-security-review\ndescription: Statically review Vue 3 SSR entry points and templates for cross-request state pollution (module-scope reactive state, non-per-request app/store creation) and injection via unsanitized v-html or unvalidated dynamic href/src bindings, grounded in Vue's own SSR and security-best-practices guidance.\nallowed-tools: Read Grep Glob\nmetadata:\nauthor: \"github: VincentChuWaiChow\"\nversion: \"0.1.0\"\nupdated: \"2026-07-02\"\ncategory: security</h2>\n<h1>Vue SSR Security Review</h1>\n<h2>Purpose</h2>\n<p>Review Vue 3 server-side-rendered entry points, module-scope state, and template bindings for the two SSR-specific defect classes Vue's own documentation calls out directly: cross-request state pollution from state that is not created fresh per request, and injection through unsanitized <code>v-html</code> or unvalidated dynamic <code>:href</code>/<code>:src</code> bindings — without re-litigating composable/reactivity architecture, hydration-mismatch mechanics, or general component design in every response. This skill exists so the review stays anchored to the two documented, security-critical defect classes instead of drifting into a general \"SSR code review.\"</p>\n<h2>When to use</h2>\n<p>Use this skill when the user asks to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>review an SSR entry point (<code>entry-server.js</code>/<code>.ts</code>, or equivalent request-handling code that creates the Vue app for rendering),</li>\n<li>assess whether a <code>v-html</code> usage is safe,</li>\n<li>investigate a report of users seeing another user's data on first load or on a subsequent request — the classic cross-request state pollution symptom,</li>\n<li>perform a pre-launch security review of an SSR Vue application.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Do not use this skill for:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>a purely client-rendered (non-SSR) Vue app with no server-rendering entry point — cross-request state pollution does not apply, because each browser tab has its own isolated JS realm and there is no shared server process handling concurrent requests,</li>\n<li>Options API/Composition API architecture review with no security angle (composable extraction quality, reactivity-boundary correctness) — use <code>vue-composition-api-architecture-review</code> instead,</li>\n<li>a bug that requires live traffic reproduction (concurrent-request load testing, session-replay capture) to confirm exploitation — static analysis proves the structural risk, not that it has already been exploited in production.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Context7 Documentation Protocol</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Resolve the Vue library ID with <code>resolve-library-id</code> (matched result: <code>/vuejs/vue</code>) before citing any SSR-mechanism or <code>v-html</code>-behavior claim.</li>\n<li><code>/vuejs/vue</code> is Vue's core source-and-test repository (its SSR test fixtures and <code>server-renderer</code> package source cover Vue 2's <code>vue-server-renderer</code>), not the Vue 3 prose docs site. Use <code>query-docs</code> against it only to corroborate low-level rendering mechanics (e.g., that <code>v-html</code> compiles directly to setting the <code>innerHTML</code> DOM property with no sanitization step). It does not reliably surface the Vue 3 SSR guide's per-request-instance narrative or the Security guide's <code>v-html</code>/dynamic-binding rules — for that guidance, use the <code>official_docs</code> URLs in this skill's <code>metadata.json</code> and label the claim <code>documentation-based</code>.</li>\n<li>Before flagging a specific pattern as cross-request state pollution, confirm the app is actually SSR (a request-handling entry point exists that renders on the server) — the pollution risk is specific to SSR's single, long-lived Node.js process handling many requests; it does not apply to a client-only SPA.</li>\n<li>Read <code>package.json</code> first to confirm which Vue major and SSR toolchain are in use (<code>vue-server-renderer</code> for Vue 2, <code>@vue/server-renderer</code> / a meta-framework like Nuxt for Vue 3) — the per-request app/store creation requirement and the exact API names differ by major version and toolchain; do not apply Vue 3 API names to a Vue 2 codebase or vice versa.</li>\n<li>If Context7 is unavailable, fall back to the <code>official_docs</code> URLs in this skill's <code>metadata.json</code> and label the claim <code>documentation-based, unverified against current release</code>.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Lean operating rules</h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Cross-request state pollution and injection findings default to HIGH severity. This is a security-scoped skill: do not downgrade a structural cross-request-pollution risk or an untraced <code>v-html</code> sanitizer gap to MEDIUM just because it has not been observed exploited yet — the risk is in the structure, not in whether someone has already hit it.</li>\n<li>Trace every finding to a concrete file:line and a concrete data-flow path. A finding that says \"this might leak state\" or \"this v-html might be unsafe\" without showing the specific module-scope declaration, the specific reachability path, or the specific unsanitized data-flow trace is not a valid finding — it is a guess.</li>\n<li>Do not treat every module-scope declaration as a pollution risk. An immutable, non-reactive constant (a route table, a static config object, a compiled template) declared at module scope is safe. Only <em>mutable or reactive</em> state reachable from an SSR-rendered component's render path is the risk — check both properties (mutability/reactivity, and reachability) before flagging.</li>\n<li>Do not approve a <code>v-html</code> binding whose data source includes any user-reachable input (route params, query strings, request bodies, third-party API responses that themselves echo user input) unless a named sanitizer call (e.g., DOMPurify) is visibly present on that exact data-flow path. A sanitizer import existing elsewhere in the codebase does not clear this bar — trace the specific path under review.</li>\n<li>Check dynamic <code>:href</code>/<code>:src</code> bindings for scheme validation (an allowlist rejecting <code>javascript:</code> and other non-<code>http(s)</code> schemes) whenever the bound value's source includes user-reachable input. An unvalidated dynamic URL binding fed by user input is a MEDIUM-to-HIGH finding depending on reachability from an authenticated or public surface.</li>\n<li>Watch for per-request factory functions that appear correct (a fresh <code>createApp()</code>/<code>createSSRApp()</code> call per request) but still close over a shared module-level cache, singleton, or default parameter passed in from outer scope — the factory pattern alone does not guarantee isolation if it references mutable shared state from its enclosing scope.</li>\n<li>Never execute, build, or run application code, and never send live requests, as part of this review; this is a static-review skill (Read/Grep/Glob only).</li>\n<li>Load only the reference needed for the concern in scope.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>References</h2>\n<p>Load these only when needed:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"references/workflow-and-output.md\">Review workflow and findings contract</a> — use for the step-by-step review procedure, the state-pollution/injection decision tree, and the required output shape.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/cross-request-state-pollution.md\">Cross-request state pollution</a> — load only when reviewing an SSR entry point, tracing app/store/router creation, or investigating a suspected cross-request data-leak symptom.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/injection-and-dynamic-urls.md\">Injection: v-html and dynamic URL bindings</a> — load only when the review scope includes a <code>v-html</code> usage or a dynamic <code>:href</code>/<code>:src</code> binding. Includes the OWASP XSS grounding reference; load that citation only when a <code>v-html</code> finding is actually present.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Response minimum</h2>\n<p>Return, at minimum:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the SSR entry point(s), module-scope declarations, and/or template bindings in scope,</li>\n<li>ranked findings with file:line evidence, defect category (<code>state-pollution</code>, <code>xss</code>, or <code>url-injection</code>), the concrete data-flow trace (module-scope declaration and its reachability, or the origin-to-sink path for the injection), and a fix sketch matching Vue's documented pattern,</li>\n<li>for every <code>v-html</code> finding, an explicit statement of whether a sanitizer call is present on the traced path — never approve on the assumption one exists elsewhere,</li>\n<li>evidence level per finding (<code>repo evidence</code>, <code>documentation-based</code>, or <code>inference</code>), with structural risk findings explicitly labeled as structural risk, not as confirmed-exploited,</li>\n<li>verdict (approve / approve-with-notes / block),</li>\n<li>open questions or scope the review could not cover (e.g., \"confirming actual cross-request leakage requires concurrent-request load testing, not static review\").</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"metadata.json","sizeBytes":1483,"isText":true},{"path":"references/cross-request-state-pollution.md","sizeBytes":7102,"isText":true},{"path":"references/injection-and-dynamic-urls.md","sizeBytes":8932,"isText":true},{"path":"references/workflow-and-output.md","sizeBytes":6786,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":8164,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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