CVSS 3.0
5.4 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NCVE-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 `<`.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 52% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-79
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- backbone_project:backbone
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp | npm | backbone | >=0.3.3 <0.5.0 | 0.5.0 |