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ECHO DEPENDENCY SECURITY BLITZ CLOSES SOCKET.IO VULNERABILITY

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Laravel Echo shipped five critical dependency updates overnight, including a socket.io-parser patch that closes CVE-2026-33151 and hardens axios against prototype pollution attacks.

The socket.io-parser bump to 4.2.6 [1] fixes a known vulnerability that could affect real-time communication in production apps. That's the one that demands immediate attention. Running alongside it, axios upgraded to 1.15.2 [2] with prototype-pollution hardening for the Node HTTP adapter plus a Unix domain socket SSRF mitigation that closes a supply-chain attack vector. Flatted jumped to 3.4.2 [3] fixing CWE-1321, while minimatch's aggressive leap from 3.0.8 to 9.0.9 [4] brings major pattern-matching improvements. PostCSS landed at 8.5.14 [5] resolving custom syntax regressions. On the Moat side, the team shipped light theme support [6], improved naming conventions [7], and patched exit code handling [8], but these are polish work while Echo's security chain is tightening. This is a maintenance release that actually matters: your WebSocket layer is more secure, your HTTP client is hardened, and your CLI tools are more reliable.

Quick answers

What shipped in Laravel on May 15, 2026?
Laravel Echo shipped five critical dependency updates overnight, including a socket.io-parser patch that closes CVE-2026-33151 and hardens axios against prototype pollution attacks. In total, 24 commits, 6 pull requests, and 8 releases landed.
Who contributed to Laravel on May 15, 2026?
1 developer shipped this update, including dependabot[bot].
What were the notable Laravel updates?
Bump socket.io-parser from 4.2.4 to 4.2.6, Bump axios from 1.15.0 to 1.15.2, and Bump flatted from 3.3.3 to 3.4.2.