body-parser

2.4.0 · 22 Oct 2026MIT201.6M / weekRepository Homepage npm Atom feed

Upgrading body-parser From 1.12.4 to 1.13.0

Same major only

1 release in betweenevery note read

Other targets from 1.12.4Newest 1.x, Clears its 3 advisories1.20.9 Latest2.4.0

1.12.4yours
1.13.0target

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change to make: 0
advisories fixed: 3
new: 0
fixes

Before you upgrade

Tick each one off as you go

Remove argument reassignment
breaking1.13.0

Security

3 advisories still affect 1.13.0

body-parser vulnerable to Denial of Service via trailing bytes after a compressed request bodyhigh · GHSA-27r3-jxmh-p828
body-parser vulnerable to denial of service when url encoding is enabledhigh · GHSA-qwcr-r2fm-qrc7
body-parser vulnerable to denial of service when invalid limit value silently disables size enforcementlow · GHSA-v422-hmwv-36x6

Upgrading to 1.20.9 clears them.

Release by release

1.13.0
Migration needed15 Jun 20153 new
- breaking
  Remove argument reassignment
- new
  Add statusCode property on Errors, in addition to status
- new
  Enable strict mode
- new
  Remove delete call

4 other lines we could not sort, mostly version bumps

Change type default to application/json for JSON parser
1.13.0
Change type default to application/x-www-form-urlencoded for urlencoded parser
1.13.0
Provide static require analysis
1.13.0
Use the http-errors module to generate errors
1.13.0

6 internal lines (docs, tests, tooling) left out.

Upgrade to 1.13.0

npm install body-parser@1.13.0

What 1.13.0 needs

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After upgrading

Run the type checker, the linter and the tests.
Build, and look for new deprecation warnings.
Update peer dependencies the new version asks for.
3 advisories still affect 1.13.0.