chore(deps): bump axios from 1.7.8 to 1.16.0

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Bumps axios from 1.7.8 to 1.16.0.

Release notes

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v1.16.0 — May 2, 2026

This release adds support for the QUERY HTTP method and a new ECONNREFUSED error constant, lands a substantial wave of HTTP, fetch, and XHR adapter bug fixes around redirects, aborts, headers, and timeouts, and welcomes 23 new contributors.

⚠️ Notable Changes

A handful of fixes in this release are either security-adjacent or change observable behaviour. Please review before upgrading:

• Fetch adapter now enforces maxBodyLength and maxContentLength. These limits were silently ignored on the fetch adapter prior to 1.16.0 — anyone relying on them as a safety net (DoS protection, accidental large uploads) had no protection. (#10795)
• Proxy requests now preserve user-supplied Host headers. Previously, the proxy path could overwrite a custom Host. Virtual-host-style routing through a proxy will now behave correctly. (#10822)
• Basic auth credentials embedded in URLs are now URL-decoded. If you have percent-encoded credentials in a URL (e.g. https://user:p%40ss@host), the decoded value is what now goes on the wire. (#10825)
• parseProtocol now strictly requires a colon in the protocol separator. Strings that loosely parsed as protocols before may no longer match. (#10729)
• Deprecated unescape() replaced with modern UTF-8 encoding. Non-ASCII URL handling is now spec-correct; consumers depending on legacy unescape() quirks may see different output bytes. (#7378)
• transformRequest input typing change was reverted. The typing change introduced in #10745 was reverted in #10810 after follow-up review — net behavior is unchanged from 1.15.2. (#10745, #10810)

🚀 New Features

• QUERY HTTP Method: Added support for the QUERY HTTP method across adapters and type definitions. (#10802)
• ECONNREFUSED Error Constant: Exposed ECONNREFUSED as a constant on AxiosError so callers can match connection-refused failures without comparing string literals (closes #6485). (#10680)
• Encode Helper Export: Exported the internal encode helper from buildURL so userland param serializers can reuse the same encoding logic that axios uses internally. (#6897)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• HTTP Adapter — Redirects & Headers: Cleared stale headers when a redirect targets a no-proxy host, fixed the redirect listener chain so listeners no longer stack across hops, restored the missing requestDetails argument on beforeRedirect, preserved user-supplied Host headers when forwarding through a proxy, and properly URL-decoded basic auth credentials. (#10794, #10800, #6241, #10822, #10825)
• HTTP Adapter — Streams & Timeouts: Preserved the partial response object on AxiosError when a stream is aborted after headers arrive, honoured the timeout option during the connect phase when redirects are disabled, and resolved an unsettled-promise hang when an aborted request was combined with compression and maxRedirects: 0. (#10708, #10819, #7149)
• Fetch Adapter: Enforced maxBodyLength / maxContentLength in the fetch adapter, set the User-Agent header to match the HTTP adapter, preserved the original abort reason instead of replacing it with a generic error, and deferred global access so importing the module no longer throws a TypeError in restricted environments. (#10795, #10772, #10806, #7260)
• XHR Adapter: Unsubscribed the cancelToken and AbortSignal listeners on the error, timeout, and abort code paths to prevent leaked subscriptions. (#10787)
• Error Handling: Attached the parsed response to AxiosError when JSON.parse fails inside dispatchRequest, prevented settle from emitting undefined error codes, and tightened the parseProtocol regex to require a colon in the protocol separator. (#10724, #7276, #10729)
• Types & Exports: Aligned the CommonJS CancelToken typings with the ESM build, fixed a compiler error caused by RawAxiosHeaders, and re-exported create from the package index. (#7414, #6389, #6460)
• UTF-8 Encoding: Replaced the deprecated unescape() call with a modern UTF-8 encoding implementation. (#7378)
• Misc Cleanup: Resolved a batch of small inconsistencies and gadget-level issues across the codebase. (#10833)

🔧 Maintenance & Chores

• Refactor — ES6 Modernisation: Modernised the utils module and XHR adapter to use ES6 features, and tidied the multipart boundary error message. (#10588, #7419)
• Tests: Hardened the HTTP test server lifecycle to fix flaky FormData EPIPE failures, fixed Win32 platform support for the pipe tests, and corrected an incorrect test assumption. (#10820, #10791, #10796)
• Docs: Documented paramsSerializer.encode for strict RFC 3986 query encoding, updated the parseReviver TypeScript definitions and configuration docs for ES2023, added timeout guidance to the README's first async example, and expanded notes around the recent type changes. (#10821, #10782, #10759, #10804)
• Reverted: Reverted the transformRequest input typing change from #10745 after follow-up review. (#10745, #10810)
• Dependencies: Bumped actions/setup-node, the github-actions group, and postcss (in /docs) to their latest versions. (#10785, #10813, #10814)
• Release: Updated changelog and packages, and prepared the 1.16.0 release. (#10790, #10834)

🌟 New Contributors

We are thrilled to welcome our new contributors. Thank you for helping improve axios:

• @​singhankit001 (#10588)
• @​cuiweixie (#7419)
• @​iruizsalinas (#10787)
• @​MarcosNocetti (#10680)
• @​deepview-autofix (#10729)

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Changelog

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Changelog

v1.15.2 - April 21, 2026

This release delivers prototype-pollution hardening for the Node HTTP adapter, adds an opt-in allowedSocketPaths allowlist to mitigate SSRF via Unix domain sockets, fixes a keep-alive socket memory leak, and ships supply-chain hardening across CI and security docs.

🔒 Security Fixes

• Prototype Pollution Hardening (HTTP Adapter): Hardened the Node HTTP adapter and resolveConfig/mergeConfig/validator paths to read only own properties and use null-prototype config objects, preventing polluted auth, baseURL, socketPath, beforeRedirect, and insecureHTTPParser from influencing requests. (#10779)
• SSRF via socketPath: Rejects non-string socketPath values and adds an opt-in allowedSocketPaths config option to restrict permitted Unix domain socket paths, returning AxiosError ERR_BAD_OPTION_VALUE on mismatch. (#10777)
• Supply-chain Hardening: Added .npmrc with ignore-scripts=true, lockfile lint CI, non-blocking reproducible build diff, scoped CODEOWNERS, expanded SECURITY.md/THREATMODEL.md with provenance verification (npm audit signatures), 60-day resolution policy, and maintainer incident-response runbook. (#10776)

🚀 New Features

• allowedSocketPaths Config Option: New request config option (and TypeScript types) to allowlist Unix domain socket paths used by the Node http adapter; backwards compatible when unset. (#10777)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Keep-alive Socket Memory Leak: Installs a single per-socket error listener tracking the active request via kAxiosSocketListener/kAxiosCurrentReq, eliminating per-request listener accumulation, MaxListenersExceededWarning, and linear heap growth under concurrent or long-running keep-alive workloads (fixes #10780). (#10788)

🔧 Maintenance & Chores

• Changelog: Updated CHANGELOG.md with v1.15.1 release notes. (#10781)

Full Changelog

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v1.15.1 - April 19, 2026

This release ships a coordinated set of security hardening fixes across headers, body/redirect limits, multipart handling, and XSRF/prototype-pollution vectors, alongside a broad sweep of bug fixes, test migrations, and threat-model documentation updates.

🔒 Security Fixes

• Header Injection Hardening: Tightened validation and sanitisation across request header construction to close the header-injection attack surface. (#10749)

• CRLF Stripping in Multipart Headers: Correctly strips CR/LF from multipart header values to prevent injection via field names and filenames. (#10758)

• Prototype Pollution / Auth Bypass: Replaced unsafe in checks with hasOwnProperty to prevent authentication bypass via prototype pollution on config objects, with additional regression tests. (#10761, #10760)

• withXSRFToken Truthy Bypass: Short-circuits on any truthy non-boolean value, so an ambiguous config no longer silently leaks the XSRF token cross-origin. (#10762)

• maxBodyLength With Zero Redirects: Enforces maxBodyLength even when maxRedirects is set to 0, closing a bypass path for oversized request bodies. (#10753)

• Streamed Response maxContentLength Bypass: Applies maxContentLength to streamed responses that previously bypassed the cap. (#10754)

• Follow-up CVE Completion: Completes an earlier incomplete CVE fix to fully close the regression window. (#10755)

🚀 New Features

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Commits

• df53d7d chore(release): prepare release 1.16.0 (#10834)
• 9d92bcd fix: gadgets and smaller issues (#10833)
• 5107ee6 fix: prevent undefined error codes in settle (#7276)
• e573499 fix(fetch): defer global access in fetch adapter (#7260)
• ad68e1a fix(http): honor timeout during connect without redirects (#10819)
• 2a51828 fix(http): decode URL basic auth credentials (#10825)
• 0e8b6bb fix(http): preserve user-supplied Host header when forwarding through a proxy...
• 79f39e1 docs: document paramsSerializer.encode for strict RFC 3986 query encoding (#1...
• 0fe3a5f [Docs/Types] Update parseReviver TypeScript definitions for ES2023 and add ...
• cd6737f chore: matches the sibling responseStream.on(aborted) handler and added tests...
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Greptile Summary

This PR bumps axios from 1.7.8 to 1.16.0 in plugins/plugin-whatsapp/package.json, picking up multiple security hardening releases (prototype-pollution hardening, SSRF mitigation via allowedSocketPaths, header-injection fixes, XSRF bypass closure, maxBodyLength/maxContentLength enforcement) along the way. The exact-pin style is preserved and the change is scoped to a single plugin.

Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge — routine security-driven dependency bump with no logic changes.

Single-line change updating an exact-pinned axios version. The upgrade path includes significant security hardening (prototype pollution, SSRF, header injection) with no breaking API changes for standard usage. The plugin's WhatsApp Cloud API usage is unaffected by the behavioral edge-case changes in 1.16.0.

No files require special attention.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
plugins/plugin-whatsapp/package.json	Bumps axios from 1.7.8 (exact pin) to 1.16.0 (exact pin), picking up security fixes from v1.15.1/v1.15.2 and bug fixes/features from v1.16.0.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A["plugin-whatsapp\npackage.json"] -->|"axios 1.7.8 → 1.16.0"| B["axios v1.15.1\n🔒 Security fixes:\n- Prototype pollution hardening\n- Header injection tightening\n- XSRF token bypass fix\n- maxBodyLength enforcement\n- SSRF via socketPath mitigation"]
    B --> C["axios v1.15.2\n🔒 Security fixes:\n- HTTP adapter prototype pollution\n- allowedSocketPaths allowlist\n- Keep-alive socket memory leak"]
    C --> D["axios v1.16.0\n🚀 Features + Bug fixes:\n- QUERY HTTP method support\n- Fetch adapter maxBodyLength enforcement\n- Proxy Host header preservation\n- URL-decoded basic auth credentials"]
    D --> E["WhatsApp Cloud API calls\nvia axios instance"]

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