CVE-2016-10537

MEDIUM

backbone < 0.3.3 - Cross-Site Scripting via Model#Escape Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 `<`.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/108

Scores

CVSS v3 5.4
EPSS 0.0069
EPSS Percentile 48.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (2)
backbone_project/backbone < 0.3.3
npm/backbone 0.3.3 - 0.5.0npm
Published May 31, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026