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- Comment on How Hackers Use NPMSCan.com to Hack Web Apps (Next.js, Nuxt.js, React, Bun) 1 week ago:
Yeah, this is my write-up – appreciate you taking the time to actually read and critique it.
You’re right on a few things:
- The title is doing a lot at once.
- The piece drifts between “how attackers think about CVEs/deps” and “how that shows up as middleware/payload/framework bugs.”
Where I disagree a bit is on “the tool is irrelevant” – NPMSCan in this context isn’t meant to be the star of the show, it’s the lens:
- I’m using NPMSCan as the recon surface: maintainer churn, weird
postinstallscripts, version diffs, dead owners, sketchy publish timelines, etc. - From that, the article pivots into: “OK, if you see this dependency pattern in a typical Next/Nuxt/React/Bun app, here’s the kind of bug path it usually maps to: auth bypass, cache poisoning, SSRF, Nuxt payload traversal, Bun command injection, etc.”
So it’s less “product article about NPMSCan,” more “here’s how a scanner + public npm metadata + framework conventions = realistic exploit paths.”
That said, your title suggestion is fair. Something like:
“How attackers turn CVE + npm metadata into real exploits in Next.js / Nuxt / React apps”
…is probably closer to what’s actually happening in the piece than the current headline. I might tweak it along those lines on future posts / cross-posts.
On the “diversions”: the middleware examples, route mishandling, etc. are meant as the downstream effects of bad dependency hygiene + vulnerable packages — but I agree I could have been more explicit when I switch from “scanner view” to “app behavior view” so people don’t feel like I’m jumping topics.
Anyway, thanks for the honest feedback. If there’s a specific section you felt was most off-topic or weakest, I’m happy to tighten it up in a follow-up or a v2 focused purely on one angle (e.g. “just cache-poisoning chains from npm deps”).
- Comment on How Hackers Use NPMSCan.com to Hack Web Apps (Next.js, Nuxt.js, React, Bun) 1 week ago:
good?
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