Handlebars before 3.0.8 and 4.x before 4.5.3 is vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. The lookup helper fails to properly validate templates, allowing attackers to submit templates that execute arbitrary JavaScript. This can be used to run arbitrary code on a server processing Handlebars templates or in a victim’s browser (effectively serving as XSS).
github.com/handlebars-lang/handlebars.js/commit/156061eb7707575293613d7fdf90e2bdaac029ee
github.com/handlebars-lang/handlebars.js/commit/d54137810a49939fd2ad01a91a34e182ece4528e
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20920
snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HANDLEBARS-534478
www.npmjs.com/advisories/1316
www.npmjs.com/advisories/1324
www.npmjs.com/package/handlebars