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Security Advisories (1)
CVE-2026-5090 (2026-05-19)

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.

NAME

Template::Plugin::Format - Plugin to create formatting functions

SYNOPSIS

[% USE format %]
[% commented = format('# %s') %]
[% commented('The cat sat on the mat') %]

[% USE bold = format('<b>%s</b>') %]
[% bold('Hello') %]

DESCRIPTION

The format plugin constructs sub-routines which format text according to a printf()-like format string.

AUTHOR

Andy Wardley <abw@kfs.org>

http://www.andywardley.com/

VERSION

2.40, distributed as part of the Template Toolkit version 2.06d, released on 22 January 2002.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.
Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Template::Plugin