Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability in Backbone.js Model#Escape Function
CVE-2016-10537 · LOW Severity
AV:N/AC:M/AU:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
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 `<`.
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