Security Advisory

CVE-2019-20920

8.1
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

Handlebars before 3.0.8 and 4.x before 4.5.3 is vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. The lookup helper fails to properly validate templates, allowing attackers to submit templates that execute arbitrary JavaScript. This can be used to run arbitrary code on a server processing Handlebars templates or in a victim's browser (effectively serving as XSS).
Published Date September 30, 2020
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory