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.
Update to version 0.5.0 or later.
backbonejs.org/#changelog
github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6p2-cx3w-6jcp
github.com/jashkenas/backbone/commit/0cdc525961d3fa98e810ffae6bcc8e3838e36d93
github.com/jashkenas/backbone/compare/0.3.3...0.5.0#diff-0d56d0d310de7ff18b3cef9c2f8f75dcL1008
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10537
www.npmjs.com/advisories/108