CVE•Published 2026-07-15•Modified 2026-07-21•1 article on news•4 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-53516Better-auth · Better_auth

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CVSS v3.1
8.3
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
EPSS percentile
15
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 85% of all CVEs
Description

Better Auth is an authentication and authorization library for TypeScript. Prior to 1.6.11, Better Auth's OAuth callback auto-link gate in handleOAuthUserInfo accepts implicit account linking when the OAuth provider asserts email_verified: true without requiring the local user row's emailVerified field to also be true, allowing an attacker who pre-registers a victim email through /sign-up/email to bind the victim's OAuth identity to the attacker's account. The same primitive affects one-tap, and emailAndPassword.requireEmailVerification: true does not mitigate the link-time verification change. This issue is fixed in version 1.6.11.

Timeline
Published 2026-07-15
Modified 2026-07-21

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