diff --git a/MIGRATION.md b/MIGRATION.md
index b96bee548d09..e75f6916a032 100644
--- a/MIGRATION.md
+++ b/MIGRATION.md
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
     - [Deploying build artifacts](#deploying-build-artifacts)
       - [Dropped support for file URLs](#dropped-support-for-file-urls)
       - [Serving with nginx](#serving-with-nginx)
+      - [Ignore story files from node\_modules](#ignore-story-files-from-node_modules)
   - [7.0 Core changes](#70-core-changes)
     - [7.0 feature flags removed](#70-feature-flags-removed)
     - [Story context is prepared before for supporting fine grained updates](#story-context-is-prepared-before-for-supporting-fine-grained-updates)
@@ -937,6 +938,28 @@ With [nginx](https://www.nginx.com/), you need to extend [the MIME type handling
 
 It would otherwise default to serving the `.mjs` files as `application/octet-stream`.
 
+##### Ignore story files from node_modules
+
+In 6.x Storybook literally followed the glob patterns specified in your `.storybook/main.js` `stories` field. Storybook 7.0 ignores files from `node_modules` unless your glob pattern includes the string `"node_modules"`.
+
+Given the following `main.js`:
+
+```js
+export default {
+  stories: ['../**/*.stories.*']
+}
+```
+
+If you want to restore the previous behavior to include `node_modules`, you can update it to:
+
+```js
+export default {
+  stories: ['../**/*.stories.*', '../**/node_modules/**/*.stories.*']
+}
+```
+
+The first glob would have node_modules automatically excluded by Storybook, and the second glob would include all stories that are under a nested `node_modules` directory.
+
 ### 7.0 Core changes
 
 #### 7.0 feature flags removed
diff --git a/code/lib/builder-vite/src/list-stories.ts b/code/lib/builder-vite/src/list-stories.ts
index f3702e4cf826..c51ad5af2c3c 100644
--- a/code/lib/builder-vite/src/list-stories.ts
+++ b/code/lib/builder-vite/src/list-stories.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import * as path from 'path';
 import slash from 'slash';
 import { promise as glob } from 'glob-promise';
-import { normalizeStories } from '@storybook/core-common';
+import { normalizeStories, commonGlobOptions } from '@storybook/core-common';
 
 import type { Options } from '@storybook/types';
 
@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ export async function listStories(options: Options) {
           ? pattern
           : path.join(options.configDir, pattern);
 
-        return glob(slash(absolutePattern), { follow: true });
+        return glob(slash(absolutePattern), {
+          ...commonGlobOptions(absolutePattern),
+          follow: true,
+        });
       })
     )
   ).reduce((carry, stories) => carry.concat(stories), []);
diff --git a/code/lib/cli/src/automigrate/fixes/mdx-gfm.ts b/code/lib/cli/src/automigrate/fixes/mdx-gfm.ts
index 7989b5c1517a..b8c215feef06 100644
--- a/code/lib/cli/src/automigrate/fixes/mdx-gfm.ts
+++ b/code/lib/cli/src/automigrate/fixes/mdx-gfm.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import semver from 'semver';
 import { join } from 'path';
 import slash from 'slash';
 import glob from 'globby';
+import { commonGlobOptions } from '@storybook/core-common';
 import { getStorybookData, updateMainConfig } from '../helpers/mainConfigFile';
 import type { Fix } from '../types';
 import { getStorybookVersionSpecifier } from '../../helpers';
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ export const mdxgfm: Fix<Options> = {
           ? slash(join(configDir, item))
           : slash(join(configDir, item.directory, item.files));
 
-      const files = await glob(pattern);
+      const files = await glob(pattern, commonGlobOptions(pattern));
 
       return files.some((f) => f.endsWith('.mdx'));
     }, Promise.resolve(false));
diff --git a/code/lib/core-common/src/index.ts b/code/lib/core-common/src/index.ts
index 726812b67bb3..7296dc814a2c 100644
--- a/code/lib/core-common/src/index.ts
+++ b/code/lib/core-common/src/index.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ export * from './utils/cache';
 export * from './utils/check-addon-order';
 export * from './utils/envs';
 export * from './utils/findDistEsm';
+export * from './utils/common-glob-options';
 export * from './utils/get-builder-options';
 export * from './utils/get-framework-name';
 export * from './utils/get-renderer-name';
diff --git a/code/lib/core-common/src/utils/common-glob-options.ts b/code/lib/core-common/src/utils/common-glob-options.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..482ed8630674
--- /dev/null
+++ b/code/lib/core-common/src/utils/common-glob-options.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+const NODE_MODULES_RE = /node_modules/;
+
+// Exclude node_modules stories everywhere we call `glob`
+export const commonGlobOptions = (glob: string) =>
+  NODE_MODULES_RE.test(glob) ? {} : { ignore: ['**/node_modules/**'] };
diff --git a/code/lib/core-server/src/utils/StoryIndexGenerator.ts b/code/lib/core-server/src/utils/StoryIndexGenerator.ts
index 7043c39bc991..c6e166bd6eb5 100644
--- a/code/lib/core-server/src/utils/StoryIndexGenerator.ts
+++ b/code/lib/core-server/src/utils/StoryIndexGenerator.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import type {
   StoryName,
 } from '@storybook/types';
 import { userOrAutoTitleFromSpecifier, sortStoriesV7 } from '@storybook/preview-api';
-import { normalizeStoryPath } from '@storybook/core-common';
+import { commonGlobOptions, normalizeStoryPath } from '@storybook/core-common';
 import { logger, once } from '@storybook/node-logger';
 import { getStorySortParameter } from '@storybook/csf-tools';
 import { toId } from '@storybook/csf';
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ export class StoryIndexGenerator {
         const fullGlob = slash(
           path.join(this.options.workingDir, specifier.directory, specifier.files)
         );
-        const files = await glob(fullGlob);
+        const files = await glob(fullGlob, commonGlobOptions(fullGlob));
 
         if (files.length === 0) {
           once.warn(
diff --git a/code/lib/core-server/src/utils/watch-story-specifiers.ts b/code/lib/core-server/src/utils/watch-story-specifiers.ts
index f7946940ed55..a0d1818be720 100644
--- a/code/lib/core-server/src/utils/watch-story-specifiers.ts
+++ b/code/lib/core-server/src/utils/watch-story-specifiers.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import glob from 'globby';
 import uniq from 'lodash/uniq.js';
 
 import type { NormalizedStoriesSpecifier, Path } from '@storybook/types';
+import { commonGlobOptions } from '@storybook/core-common';
 
 const isDirectory = (directory: Path) => {
   try {
@@ -74,7 +75,7 @@ export function watchStorySpecifiers(
               path.basename(specifier.files)
             );
             // glob only supports forward slashes
-            const files = await glob(slash(dirGlob));
+            const files = await glob(slash(dirGlob), commonGlobOptions(dirGlob));
 
             files.forEach((filePath) => {
               const fileImportPath = toImportPath(