CVE-2026-5090

Description

Template::Plugin::HTML versions through 3.102 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.

Source: NVD

References

• [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5090
• [Other]https://github.com/abw/Template2/issues/327
• [Other]https://github.com/abw/Template2/pull/337/changes/11c78a7a771d4af505efeb754a0b8775689c2eae
• [Other]http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/19/40

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