CVE-2026-5090

Template::Plugin::HTML versions before 3.103 for Perl allows HTML and JavaScript to be injected

State
Published
Severity
6.1 Medium
Published
May 19, 2026
Updated
Sep 19, 2026
Reserved
Mar 28, 2026

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Description

Template::Plugin::HTML versions before 3.103 for Perl allows HTML and JavaScript to be injected.

The html_filter function did not escape single quotes. HTML attributes inside of single quotes could be have code injected. For example, the variable "var" in

<a id='ref' title='[% var | html %]'>

would not be properly escaped. An attacker could insert some limited HTML and JavaScript, for example,

var = " ' onclick='while (true) { alert(1) }'"

Note that arbitrary HTML and JavaScript would be difficult to inject, because angle brackets, ampersands and double-quotes would still be escaped.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.1 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Template-Toolkit
  • before 3.103Affected

References

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