CVE-2016-10537

MediumCVSS 5.4/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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 `<`.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.4/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
HackerOne	backbone node module	<= 0.3.3

References

https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/compare/0.3.3...0.5.0#diff-0d56d0d310de7ff18b3cef9c2f8f75dcL1008Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/108Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/compare/0.3.3...0.5.0#diff-0d56d0d310de7ff18b3cef9c2f8f75dcL1008Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/108Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: May 31, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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