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.

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Attribute values in templates that contain escaped HTML should use double quotes instead of single quotes.

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Tue, 19 May 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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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.
Title Template::Plugin::HTML versions through 3.102 for Perl allows HTML and JavaScript to be injected
Weaknesses CWE-79
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: CPANSec

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-19T21:30:03.552Z

Reserved: 2026-03-28T19:35:11.737Z

Link: CVE-2026-5090

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-19T22:16:39.003

Modified: 2026-05-19T22:16:39.003

Link: CVE-2026-5090

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