CVE-2015-8861

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 2.61 % · percentile 85 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2017-01-23
Updated: 2024-08-06
Assigner: mitre
NVD status: Modified

Description

The handlebars package before 4.0.0 for Node.js allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by leveraging a template with an attribute that is not quoted.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-79

Advisories

GHSA-9prh-257w-9277 — Cross-Site Scripting in handlebars

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-0564
GCVE · GCVE-0-2015-8861

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:handlebars.js_project:handlebars.js:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* < 4.0.0

Affected products

Product	Versions
	affected n/a

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD