CVE-2026-53516

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.

Weakness classification

• security-advisories@github.com: CWE-287

Primary references

• security-advisories@github.com — Patch
• security-advisories@github.com — Issue Tracking, Patch
• security-advisories@github.com — Release Notes
• security-advisories@github.com — Mitigation, Vendor Advisory