CVE-2017-16008
i18next is a language translation framework. Because of how the interpolation is implemented, making replacements from the dictionary one…
- 6.1MediumCVSS base score
- 0.85%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 42% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
i18next is a language translation framework. Because of how the interpolation is implemented, making replacements from the dictionary one at a time, untrusted user input can use the name of one of the dictionary keys to inject script into the browser. This affects i18next <=1.10.2.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.85% · top 42% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Affected products
HackerOne · i18next node module
- affected <=1.10.2
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmi18nextGHSA-f89g-whpf-6q9m (opens in a new tab)
References
2
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/325 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/i18next/i18next/pull/443 (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)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0747 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-f89g-whpf-6q9m (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-16008)Record last updated .