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GHSA-J6P2-CX3W-6JCP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2019-02-18 23:39 – Updated: 2026-01-16 22:08

Summary

Cross-Site Scripting in backbone

Details

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.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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  "modified": "2026-01-16T22:08:33Z",
  "published": "2019-02-18T23:39:55Z",
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CVE-2016-10537 (GCVE-0-2016-10537)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-31 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 04:14

Summary

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 `<`.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-79 - Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Generic (CWE-79)

Assigner

hackerone mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/108	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/compare/0.3…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
HackerOne	backbone node module	Affected: <= 0.3.3

Date Public

2018-04-26 00:00

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