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ModerateVulnerabilityGHSA-wrjc-x8rr-h8h6CVE-2026-53669Published 23 Jul 2026

React Router: Open redirect via backslash in <Link> and useNavigate (CVE-2025-68470 bypass)

Affected releases · react-router

  • 7.x7.0.0 – 7.17.0Fixed in 7.18.0
  • 6.x6.0.0 – 6.30.6No fix on this line yet

On 7.x, the newest line:

npm install react-router@7.18.0
8.x

  1. Not affected

    8.0.0 – 8.5.0

    8 releases, latest

7.x

  1. Affected

    7.0.0 – 7.17.0

    47 releases

  2. Fixed

    7.18.0 – 7.18.4

    5 releases

6.x

  1. Affected

    6.0.0 – 6.30.6

    70 releases

228 stable releases of react-router, oldest to newest, one row per major.

Is your project affected?

Paste your package.json, or type the range you declare for react-router. It is read in your browser and sent nowhere.

What happens

This is a follow up to CVE-2025-68470. React Router was alerted to certain scenarios in which the fix there was incomplete so there still existed some scenarios where attacker supplied paths passed to navigation mechanisms could result in unexpected external navigations.