{"id":"CVE-2017-16015","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-16015","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T03:44:36.712Z","title":"This means that if the application did not sanitize html on behalf of forms, use of forms may be vulnerable to cross site scripting","description":"Forms is a library for easily creating HTML forms. Versions before 1.3.0 did not have proper html escaping. This means that if the application did not sanitize html on behalf of forms, use of forms may be vulnerable to cross site scripting","published":"2018-06-04T19:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:08:39.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"support@hackerone.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":6.1,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-80","CWE-79"],"affected":["forms project/forms"],"epss":{"score":0.00835,"percentile":0.57566,"date":"2026-10-28","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.83%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/caolan/forms/commit/bc01e534a0ff863dedb2026a50bd03153bbc6a5d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/158","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/caolan/forms/commit/bc01e534a0ff863dedb2026a50bd03153bbc6a5d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/158","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16015","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}