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…

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

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.83% · top 42% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.

Weakness

• CWE-80: Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) (CWE-80) (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-80 and its CVEs
• CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-79 and its CVEs

Affected products

• HackerOne · forms node module

  • affected <1.3.0

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• npmformsGHSA-vwjj-2852-3765 (opens in a new tab)

References (2)

• https://github.com/caolan/forms/commit/bc01e534a0ff863dedb2026a50bd03153bbc6a5d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/158 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisory GHSA-vwjj-2852-3765 (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2017-16015](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2017-16015.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2017-16015)

Record last updated 16 Sept 2024, 22:56 UTC.