CVE-2016-10537

backbone is a module that adds in structure to a JavaScript heavy application through key-value pairs and custom events connecting to your RESTful API through JSON There exists a potential Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in the `Model#Escape` function of backbone 0.3.3 and earlier, if a user is able to supply input. This is due to the regex that's replacing things to miss the conversion of things such as `<` to `<`.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.4 Medium

Status

Modified - support@hackerone.com

Published

2018-05-31

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Backbone (Backbone Project)
• Backbone Node Module (Hackerone)

References

• https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/compare/0.3.3...0.5.0#diff-0d56d0d310de7ff18b3cef9c2f8f75dcL1008
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/108