Medium, CVSS 5.4npmAmendedPublished
Cross-Site Scripting in backbone
CVE-2016-10537 · GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp
- Affected
- npm backbone >= 0.3.3, < 0.5.0
- Fixed in
- 0.5.0· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- Affected versions of backbone are vulnerable to cross-site scripting when users are allowed to supply input to the Model#Escape function, and the output is then written to the DOM. The vulnerability occurs as a result of the regular expression used to encode metacharacters failing to take HTML Entities such as < into account. Recommendation Update to version 0.5.0 or later.
Recommended action: Upgrade to 0.5.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.