Baileys is a cocket-based TS/JavaScript API for WhatsApp Web. In versions prior to both 6.7.22 and 7.0.0-rc12, any Baileys session can be sent a malicious payload via the placeholderResendMessage and trigger a fake messages.upsert event with a fake message key and payload. This allows anyone to spoof messages. The same exploit also allows an attacker to corrupt the app state sync system by sending fake key shares, and also allows for history sync spoofing which also serves the same problem, injecting fake previous context or "on-demand" sync. This issue has been fixed in versions 6.7.22 and 7.0.0-rc12.
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| WhiskeySockets | Baileys | affected |
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| WhiskeySockets | @whiskeysockets/baileys | affected |
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GHSA-qvv5-jq5g-4cgg | Baileys has message upsert / hist sync spoofing and app state corruption when using maliciously crafted protocolMessage payload |
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Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:15:00 +0000
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| Description | Baileys is a cocket-based TS/JavaScript API for WhatsApp Web. In versions prior to both 6.7.22 and 7.0.0-rc12, any Baileys session can be sent a malicious payload via the placeholderResendMessage and trigger a fake messages.upsert event with a fake message key and payload. This allows anyone to spoof messages. The same exploit also allows an attacker to corrupt the app state sync system by sending fake key shares, and also allows for history sync spoofing which also serves the same problem, injecting fake previous context or "on-demand" sync. This issue has been fixed in versions 6.7.22 and 7.0.0-rc12. | |
| Title | Baileys has message upsert / hist sync spoofing and app state corruption when using maliciously crafted protocolMessage payload | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-290 CWE-345 CWE-346 |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-03T20:55:08.006Z
Reserved: 2026-05-20T18:25:25.707Z
Link: CVE-2026-48063
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