CVE-2026-5090CWE-79cross-site-scripting

CVE-2026-5090

Medium · published May 20, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
26.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.1 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00338 · 26.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2026-05-20T02:16Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 MAY 21:30Z
    Template::Plugin::HTML versions through 3.102 for Perl allows HTML and JavaScript to be injected
    cvelistv5