plug has 4 known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.20.3). DepScope rates its health at 46/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of plug?

The latest version of plug is 1.20.3, released 2026-07-09.

Does plug have known vulnerabilities?

Yes. plug has 4 known vulnerabilities. See depscope.dev/pkg/hex/plug for details.

What are alternatives to plug?

DepScope has no curated alternatives for plug at this time.

What license does plug use?

plug is licensed under Apache-2.0.

plug

hexv1.20.3deprecated

Compose web applications with functions

License Apache-2.0permissive138 versions4 maintainers0 deps474,703 weekly dl

elixir-plug/plug

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Health

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Update to >= 33858427c7f2737d560a2e40a0c9a9270d77d1d7 to fix known vulnerabilities

Moderate health score (46/100) — verify manually
2 high severity vulnerabilities
Package is deprecated

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

14/20

popularity

13/25

security

15/15

maturity

9/15

community

Vulnerabilities

2 high1 medium1 low

Advisories (4)

Severity	ID	Summary	Fixed in
high	CVE-2026-54892	Plug: quadratic-time decoding of nested query/body parameters enables denial of service	a61124aa625d819a218fb07f90afbac8aa85eb0e
low	CVE-2026-56813	Cookie attribute injection in Plug.Conn.Cookies.encode/2	eceb8315ce9a31ef784943a95a8624ebd1bc7e06
medium	CVE-2026-56814	Plug: multipart :length limit is not charged for part headers, enabling unbounded temp-file creation (denial of service)	df97d3f17f808a9916a7700a701fb85314559d56
high	CVE-2026-8468	Unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing causes denial of service in plug	33858427c7f2737d560a2e40a0c9a9270d77d1d7

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

3.8/10

weak

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

5

Contributors (12m)

21

Primary author dominance

49%

GitHub stars

3,000

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First published · 2014-04-23T18:58:52.000000Z

Last updated · 2026-07-09T09:42:46.341861Z