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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe authorization client now accepts a state value when building authorization URLs and validates the returned state during code exchange. Tests cover URL propagation, successful matching state, and tampered state errors. ChangesAuthorization state validation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Application
participant AuthClient
participant AuthorizationServer
Application->>AuthClient: buildAuthorizationUrl({ state })
AuthClient->>AuthorizationServer: authorization URL with state
AuthorizationServer-->>Application: callback with state
Application->>AuthClient: getTokenByCode({ expectedState })
AuthClient->>AuthorizationServer: authorization-code exchange
AuthorizationServer-->>AuthClient: access token or state error
AuthClient-->>Application: exchange result
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to An empty state value can produce an authorization callback that fails validation. Preserve explicitly supplied values before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@packages/auth0-auth-js/src/auth-client.ts`:
- Line 2311: Update the state handling in the authorization URL flow around the
options.state check to detect whether state was explicitly provided rather than
relying on truthiness, so state: '' is included in the authorization parameters.
Preserve the existing behavior for omitted state and ensure getTokenByCode
continues passing an explicitly supplied empty state as expectedState.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve an explicitly supplied empty state.
BuildAuthorizationUrlOptions.state permits an empty string, and its contract says every provided value is added to the authorization parameters. The current truthiness check omits state: ''. getTokenByCode still passes expectedState: '' to openid-client, whose AuthorizationCodeGrantChecks.expectedState must match the returned value exactly. The exchange can therefore reject a callback with no state. Preserve the empty value instead of rejecting it.
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- if (options?.state) {
+ if (options?.state !== undefined) {
params.set('state', options.state);
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In `@packages/auth0-auth-js/src/auth-client.ts` at line 2311, Update the state
handling in the authorization URL flow around the options.state check to detect
whether state was explicitly provided rather than relying on truthiness, so
state: '' is included in the authorization parameters. Preserve the existing
behavior for omitted state and ensure getTokenByCode continues passing an
explicitly supplied empty state as expectedState.
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Summary
state?: stringtoBuildAuthorizationUrlOptions— when provided, it is embeddedin the authorization URL and echoed back on the callback URL.
expectedState?: stringtoTokenByCodeOptions— when provided, it is forwarded toopenid-client'sauthorizationCodeGrantchecks, which validates the callbackstateagainst it and rejects a mismatch.
no
stateis sent and no state check is performed on the exchange. PKCE alone covers CSRFfor the authorization-code flow.
Why
Enables consumers to implement concurrent multi-tab login support.
auth0-server-js'senableParallelTransactionsoption (shipped in a companion PR) generates a per-loginstate,stores the transaction under a state-scoped cookie name, and validates it on callback via
expectedState. Without this change thestatewould be silently dropped from the authorizeURL and the exchange would have no way to enforce it.
Backward compatibility
Purely additive. No existing call site passes
stateorexpectedState, so no behavior changesfor any current consumer.
openid-client's behavior whenexpectedStateisundefinedis"expect no state in the response" — the existing contract.
Test plan
buildAuthorizationUrlwith nostateoption →stateparam absent from URL (existing test,unchanged).
buildAuthorizationUrlwithstate: 'state-123'→ URL carriesstate=state-123.getTokenByCodewith matchingexpectedState→ succeeds.getTokenByCodewith mismatchedexpectedState→ throwsTokenByCodeError.Summary by CodeRabbit
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