[select2] Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Select2

In Select2 through 4.0.5, as used in Snipe-IT and other products, rich selectlists allow XSS. This affects use cases with Ajax remote data loading when HTML templates are used to display listbox data.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10744
• https://github.com/select2/select2/issues/4587
• https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it/pull/6831
• https://github.com/snipe/snipe-it/pull/6831/commits/5848d9a10c7d62c73ff6a3858edfae96a429402a
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rf66-hmqf-q3fc