Vue Template Compiler version 2.5.5 and its predecessor, 2.5.4, represent incremental updates to the essential tool for compiling Vue 2.0 templates into render functions directly usable by the Vue runtime. Both versions share fundamental characteristics: a reliance on the 'he' and 'de-indent' dependencies for HTML entity encoding/decoding and code de-indentation, respectively, ensuring clean and consistent template transformations. They are both licensed under the MIT license and originate from the main Vue.js repository.
The key difference lies in their release dates. Version 2.5.5 was published on November 17, 2017, a day after version 2.5.4 which was released on November 16, 2017. From a developer's perspective, this close proximity suggests that version 2.5.5 likely contains bug fixes or minor enhancements identified shortly after the release of 2.5.4. While the provided data lacks specific change logs, upgrading from 2.5.4 to 2.5.5 is advisable to benefit from any potential stability improvements or resolved edge cases. Developers building Vue applications should always consider utilizing the latest patch version within their major.minor version constraint (in this case, 2.5.x) to ensure they are working with the most refined and reliable version of the compiler.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 2.5.5 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.
