CVE-2016-10537: Backbone Project Backbone

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

backbone is a module that adds in structure to a JavaScript heavy application through key-value pairs and custom events connecting to your RESTful API through JSON There exists a potential Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in the `Model#Escape` function of backbone 0.3.3 and earlier, if a user is able to supply input. This is due to the regex that's replacing things to miss the conversion of things such as `<` to `<`.

Affected products

• Backbone Project Backbone: up to and including 0.3.3

Published 2018-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.