Vue Template Compiler version 2.4.0 represents an incremental update over version 2.3.4, offering Vue.js developers a refined tool for pre-compiling Vue templates. Both versions share a core purpose: transforming Vue templates into render functions that the Vue runtime can efficiently execute. Under the hood, they leverage the same fundamental dependencies, he for HTML entity encoding/decoding and de-indent for removing unnecessary indentation from template strings, showing a consistent approach to template parsing and preparation. The crucial distinction lies in the improvements and bug fixes incorporated into version 2.4.0, released on July 13, 2017, subsequent to version 2.3.4's release on June 8, 2017.
While the specific changes aren't detailed in the provided metadata, it's common for minor version bumps (like 2.3.x to 2.4.x) to include optimizations, bug resolutions, and potentially support for new Vue features introduced in corresponding Vue framework updates. Developers upgrading from 2.3.4 to 2.4.0 could anticipate enhanced stability and potentially benefit from improved compile-time performance. The upgrade typically doesn't require significant code modifications, further encouraging developers to adopt the newer version for a smoother Vue development experience. Both versions rely on the MIT license, offering developers flexibility in their project usage, and are maintained within the official Vue.js GitHub repository, providing a reliable and well-supported ecosystem for Vue template compilation.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 2.4.0 of the package
vue-template-compiler vulnerable to client-side Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
A vulnerability has been discovered in vue-template-compiler, that allows an attacker to perform XSS via prototype pollution. The attacker could change the prototype chain of some properties such as Object.prototype.staticClass or Object.prototype.staticStyle to execute arbitrary JavaScript code. Vue 2 has reached End-of-Life. This vulnerability has been patched in Vue 3.
