feat(js,ui,localizations): limit password confirmation attempts per session

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Changes in this repo

This PR reads meta.remaining_attempts into ClerkAPIError.meta.remainingAttempts and shows the countdown in the prebuilt components through three new localization keys:

• unstable__errors.password_confirmation_attempt_remaining
• unstable__errors.password_confirmation_attempts_remaining (with {{remainingAttempts}})
• unstable__errors.password_confirmation_session_ended.

The API always enforces this limit, so every instance gets this behavior.

CORE-3779

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

API errors now expose remaining password-confirmation attempts as metadata and serialize the value using the API field name. When an error reports zero attempts, Clerk ends the session. UI forms select localized messages for remaining attempts and ended sessions. Localization entries were added across supported locales.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) — 25 minutes

Suggested reviewers: zourzouvillys, dstaley

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8101f

Confirm the backend response contract and address delayed failures signing out a newly selected session before merging. Without the attempt count, both password forms retain generic errors instead of showing the countdown or ended-session feedback.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❓ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	❓ Inconclusive	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 46 files. (14 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: limiting password confirmation attempts per session across JavaScript, UI, and localization packages.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the API metadata mapping, countdown localization keys, prebuilt component behavior, and session-wide enforcement.
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Summary

Metric	Count
Packages analyzed	19
Packages with changes	2
🔴 Breaking changes	1
🟡 Non-breaking changes	2
🟢 Additions	0

Warning
1 breaking change(s) detected - Major version bump required

🤖 This report was reviewed by claude-sonnet-4-6.

🔴 Breaking changes index (1)

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Package	Subpath	Change
@clerk/ui	./themes/experimental	createTheme

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@clerk/ui

Current version: 1.37.0
Recommended bump: MAJOR → 2.0.0

Subpath ./themes/experimental

🔴 Breaking Changes (1)

Changed: createTheme

// ... 4 unchanged lines elided ...
      theme: InternalTheme;
    }) => Elements);
    theme?: (BaseTheme | BaseTheme[]) | undefined;
-   options?: Options | undefined;
-   variables?: Variables | undefined;
-   captcha?: CaptchaAppearanceOptions | undefined;
+   options?: import("@clerk/ui/internal").Options | undefined;
+   variables?: import("@clerk/ui/internal").Variables | undefined;
+   captcha?: import("@clerk/ui/internal").CaptchaAppearanceOptions | undefined;
    cssLayerName?: string | undefined;
  }

Static analyzer: Breaking change in function createTheme: Return type changed: {__type:"prebuilt_appearance";name?:string;elements?:((params:{theme:import("@clerk/ui").~InternalTheme;})=>import("@clerk/ui").~Elements)|import("@clerk/ui").~Elements;theme?:(import("@clerk/ui").~BaseTheme|import("@clerk/ui").~BaseTheme[])|undefined;options?:import("@clerk/ui").~Options|undefined;variables?:import("@clerk/ui").~Variables|undefined;captcha?:import("@clerk/ui").~CaptchaAppearanceOptions|undefined;cssLayerName?:string|undefined;} → {__type:"prebuilt_appearance";name?:string;elements?:!unknown|((params:{theme:import("@clerk/ui").~InternalTheme;})=>!unknown);theme?:(!unknown|!unknown[])|undefined;options?:import("@clerk/ui/internal").Options|undefined;variables?:import("@clerk/ui/internal").Variables|undefined;captcha?:import("@clerk/ui/internal").CaptchaAppearanceOptions|undefined;cssLayerName?:string|undefined;}

🤖 AI review (confirmed) (72%): The options, variables, and captcha fields in the return type now reference @clerk/ui/internal, which has "unknown" resolution (package not found), meaning consumers cannot resolve these types and will get compile errors or any degradation per rule 12.

Migration: If you consume the options, variables, or captcha fields from createTheme's return value, update your type imports to match the new @clerk/ui/internal subpath once it is publicly available, or use type assertions in the interim.

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@clerk/shared

Current version: 4.37.0
Recommended bump: MINOR → 4.38.0

Subpath ./types

🟡 Non-breaking Changes (2)

Modified: ClerkAPIError.meta

// ... 25 unchanged lines elided ...
      description?: string;
      linkUrl?: string;
      linkText?: string;
-     data?: Record<string, string | number | boolean>;
+     data?: Record<string, string | number | boolean>; /** Remaining password confirmation attempts in the current session; zero means the session has ended. */
+     remainingAttempts?: number;
    };

Static analyzer: Breaking change in property ClerkAPIError.meta: Type changed: {paramName?:string;sessionId?:string;emailAddresses?:string[];identifiers?:string[];zxcvbn?:{suggestions:{code:string;m… → {paramName?:string;sessionId?:string;emailAddresses?:string[];identifiers?:string[];zxcvbn?:{suggestions:{code:string;m…

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (95%): The only change is the addition of a new optional property remainingAttempts? to ClerkAPIError.meta; existing consumers reading the meta object are unaffected, and per rule 9, adding a new optional property to an output/read type is non-breaking.

Modified: ClerkAPIErrorJSON.meta

// ... 25 unchanged lines elided ...
      link_url?: string;
      link_text?: string;
      data?: Record<string, string | number | boolean>;
+     remaining_attempts?: number;
    };

Static analyzer: Breaking change in property ClerkAPIErrorJSON.meta: Type changed: {param_name?:string;session_id?:string;email_addresses?:string[];identifiers?:string[];zxcvbn?:{suggestions:{code:strin… → {param_name?:string;session_id?:string;email_addresses?:string[];identifiers?:string[];zxcvbn?:{suggestions:{code:strin…

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (95%): The only change is the addition of a new optional property remaining_attempts? to ClerkAPIErrorJSON.meta; adding a new optional property does not break any existing well-typed consumer code that reads or constructs this type.

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🟠 Major · Enforce a server-side limit for password reverification attempts. · passwordUtils.ts:101-113

packages/ui/src/utils/passwordUtils.ts:101-113
🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Enforce a server-side limit for password reverification attempts.

The reachable FAPI session-reverification path forwards each supplied password to validateUserPassword, and the current path permits incorrect submissions without an upper bound. A caller can continue password guesses within one session. Add a finite server-side per-session counter that rejects or terminates reverification after the configured limit.

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In `@packages/ui/src/utils/passwordUtils.ts` around lines 101 - 113, Add a finite
per-session attempt counter to the password reverification flow that calls
validateUserPassword, and reject or terminate reverification when the configured
limit is reached. Keep remainingAttempts consistent with the counter so
passwordUtils can report the remaining attempts.

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In `@packages/ui/src/utils/passwordUtils.ts`:
- Around line 101-113: Add a finite per-session attempt counter to the password
reverification flow that calls validateUserPassword, and reject or terminate
reverification when the configured limit is reached. Keep remainingAttempts
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